This is an analysis of the poem At-Advent Tide that begins with:
The carvèd stalls; the altar’s drapery;
The stainèd glass; the candlesticks of gold;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcc bbade fdef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 011010100 011010101 01110011010 1101111101 1111111100 0101110101 0111010111 0101110110 1110001101 0101111101 1111111100 0111110111 1101010111 1101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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