This is an analysis of the poem A Legend Of Cologne that begins with:
Above the bones
St. Ursula owns,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbbbbbbbcXXdeeXXaa cccfXfXXfggfdcf hhgggggXXiXXjjjbbXXeecceXgX hXeXeggkkgkllkkkXi gggkXkkkggdchhabggg eeemXmlllkkX kkknXnllliiifXfgggdddXbbXXXXaXooobbbaXbcccggg gggbbbffflllccc gggXggkkXpppccc cccoooccckkk gggggaaaddd gggeeeggggggbbX pXpcccfgffqqq cXcbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,15,27,18,19,12,45,15,15,12,11,15,13,9,9,22,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101 11001 1100101100 0101 10111 1011010101 010101111 010100111 01100101 01110101 101001001011 10101001010 101101100 1101001010 0101 1101 1111001010 01100 0101 1101011010 0101 0111 010110101 10010 10000 01001011110 0101 1110 0010101010 11001 001001 0101101110 101010 1101 110011011010 11101 1111 0010010101 00100100101 0101 0111 010111101 0100 1100 1100110101 00111001100 0010101000 1101 0111 0010010100 0101 0110 010010001 101010111 011011010 100101110 11000111 1010010101 1101001010 100111110 11010101 011100110 11110111 111100100 1101 1101 110010101 111101010 111101010 1011 11001 110101010 11011 1101 11101001001 10001 0101 010100101 010110010 10100101110 101011 0101 1010110101 10101 10110 10100101111 110011111 010110111 010111101 111010001 0010010 101001 1101100101 010010101 1100101010 0111001010 0101 10111 0110010101 1101 1111 00110100101 10111 00100 1010101101 10101 11111 1001100111 11111 11111 11101001100 1111 101001 1101101101 01101 010100 01001011011 11001 101001 01001001011 1011011 011011 011010010011 11111 010100 101001101101 1110010 0100010 0010011011010 10010 00010 0110001110 01011 11101 11011001001 111010 011000 010010111000 1110010 010010 110111011100 11101 111001 001001001001 001001 11001 101001001001 110101 111101 10100001111 11001 001111 11111001111 01001 01011 01001001101 111001 111011 001001001001 101001 0011001 001001001101 110001 101111 001001101001 001001 101011 01001001001 101101 101011 001011100101 01011 001111 111001001001 1010110 101001 01011001011 11101 001111 101111101011 101001 000101 01001101001 101111 101111 101101101001 01011 11001 001001111001 01011 01011 001011001011 001101 11101 01011001101 11111 101101 01011011001 11111 011011 111001 01101 101101111011 11011 101011 101101101011 110110 11110 1011110010010 11001 111111 111111111001 000100 111011 11101011011 01111 001001 11111111111 11001 11011 01100111001 11111 11111 011011111010 11101 111110 10101100101 11011 11101 11001001001 101101 101 101 100101001011 11101 10011 001001001111 11001 1111010 101101011101 111101 011001 111001001011 101011 001001 01001001101 0111 01011 01101010111 01101 001111 001101001001 1010110 010010 010111110010 101001 101001 1010001101011 01011 01110 01111011011 111001 001101 01001001001 111101 111101 101011001001 11001 1001101 101001111101 001101 101001 11101011101 101101 111111 11111101011
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 507
- Average number of words per stanza: 95
- Amount of lines: 276
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and, nor, in, had, to, him, of, i, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, above, to, nor, that, the, they, of, as, on, what, a, is, in are repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).
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