This is an analysis of the poem The Hermit's Sacrifice that begins with:
From Rome's palaces and villas
Gaily issued forth a throng; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb acde fcac ghih jckc blal fgXg amnm Xchc gcke bbab gXhX aobo apkp nhnh phhh gqqq dpXp jhihXnldl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01100110 1010101 001001000 1010101 10111010 1111101 10001010 1110101 00101010 0010101 00101010 1110101 10101010 1001101 101111100 1010111 11101010 00100101 11111110 1111111 11101010 1011101 10101010 1010101 10101010 1010001 11111010 1011101 11001010 1110101 10101010 1110101 10101000 11000101 00101110 1010101 10101010 1110101 10101110 1010101 10001010 1010101 10101010 1010101 1011001010 100101110 10101110 101011110 01101010 1010101 10111010 1010101 10101110 1010101 101001010 1010101 1001011010 1011011 10111010 1011101 11101010 1010101 1011010 1100101 11101010 10011001 10001010 1111101 11101010 10010111 11101110 1011111 10110010 1110101 00101010 0110101 011011110 1010101 10001010 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; from, and, your, their, in, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word from is repeated.
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