This is an analysis of the poem Assumpta Maria that begins with:
Mortals, that behold a Woman,
Rising 'twixt the Moon and Sun;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAAA bcbXacacdeXX XfefgfgfDDXX acachchcDDXX eidiciXXaaXX XjXjejejDdXX cccXacaXDkXk alaXalaXaaXX bbbbmbmbdaXX ahahXhXXdeXX mXmbebebdddX XamakamaDkdk ababababjiXiXiaAAA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,18,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 1010111 111010011 1111111 10000011 10101001 11111011 11101000 10111010 1000111 11111110 1011101 11100010 10011111 11001100 101000 10111000 100010101 101001010 1110111 10101010 1110111 10101010 1010111 10100110 1010101 11001100 101000 11101010 1010111 11011010 10010101 11100111 1001001 10100011 1011101 10100110 1010101 10101100 101000 10101110 1101111 101110111 1011101 0010010010 10101001 10101100 10101100 10101011 1111101 10101100 101000 1010101000 1010101 0101011100 1010001 10101010 0111101 10101010 1000111 10100110 1101101 10101100 101000 11111101 1110111 111001101 1110101 11111010 10101001 10101110 1010101 10100110 1101001 11101100 100001001 11101010 1111101 11111010 101001001 10101010 1111111 11001010 1110101 11101011 11100101 10101100 101000 10101101 1111110 11101011 0110111 11101110 1011101 110011110 1010101 101100110 1110111 11011100 11101000 10101010 0011101 10111010 1110101 11101100 1111101 11111100 1010101 10101111 11000111 00111100 1111000 10111110 1001100 100110110 1011101 01111010 1111111 01101110 0111001 10100110 1011101 111111011 1001000 10101010 1010101 10001010 1101101 10111001 1010111 10101010 01110101 10100110 1011101 10101011 1011011 10111110 1011101 11101010 11000101 10101110 0011100 01101010 10100101 10001010 11010111 10111010 01011101 1010101 10101010 1010111 111010011 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 335
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 153
- 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; i, he, of, and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, follow, his are repeated.
The author used the same words i, who at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words athanatos, athanaton at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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