This is an analysis of the poem The Mass Of Christ that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXBBBCCcccXdcdccececccacXafgfggbhbhhdedeedadaaijijjcccccklklledeXXckckXXdXdXdgdggececcmcmcclclccbcbccccccXcdcddgjgjjdadaXnfnffececcblbllcfXblbllbcbccalallobobbfgfggdcdcckmkmmpfpffgbgbbbdbddgbgbbdldllfpfppXaeaackckXkbkbXmlmlleaeaablbXXndnddbcfcXXclXcememm
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 356,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 1001110101 1001010101 01110110101 1101010101 1100011100 1001110001 0101011111 1111001111 1101010001 1101111111 1 1111010101 1001010101 1011111001 1101010111 01011101101 1111111101 1111001001 0111110111 1001111111 1111010101 0101100111 11010111011 11010101001 0111011100 1001101111 01000010011 1001010101 1101110101 11110100011 11010011101 11110110011 0101110101 1101011001 1101010101 11000111001 1111110111 11110001101 1111110011 0101111011 1111110111 1101011011 11011100111 0110111111 0011101011 0110001011 1101111101 0101010001 1101000101 10110000101 1111010111 1101011111 0111010101 0101010101 1111010011 0101010111 0011110001 11110100001 1101010111 1111001001 1111110101 1111110101 01001011101 01110011101 001001111000 1111000101 1101110111 1001111101 1001111101 1011110111 11011100110 1111110111 110101100111 1101011001 1101010111 1100111011 1111111101 1111101011 1110111111 1111111111 1111111101 11010110111 0101110101 1101111101 1111110101 1111010101 1111011111 1001111111 1111110101 1011001101 1101011111 1011010111 1111011111 1111010101 1011101111 1110100101 1011010111 0101110101 1111001101 1101100101 0101011111 0101011111 1101011111 0011011101 1111011001 1111011100 01111100111 11001110111 1111010110 1011110111 1011110111 1101010111 01010100100 1111011101 110110101 11100101111 1101001001001 1101010111 01110101111 10011111111 11010011100 1101010101 1011011101 01001010101 1011111101 1001111111 1111111101 1111001111 11011001 1100110001 1101010111 1111000101 110010110001 1001110101 0101011111 0111110111 010010110001001101 100011010010001110 1 1001110101 10011111011 10101011101 1111011111 11100110101 11111101111 1001110101 1101111101 1111011101 1111110101 1111110111 1011110101 0111110101 1111110001 11110111111 1111111011 1111010111 10010101001 0111110101 1111010101 1111110100 0101100100 1101010111 1011010011 01100100111 1111101100 11010101011 11011111111 0101011111 1111110111 1101110111 0101011101 110101000101 0101100111 1011001111 11011101010 1110011101 01111001010 1101011101 1100110101 1101011101 1100011101 1111011101 1111010100 10011110111 1101011101 1101110111 01110011101 10111111101 1111011101 11110101001 0111000101 0100011001 1001011101 1101111111 1111010101 0100010101 1111000111 1111011011 1111010100 1101111101 10010111010 1111100111 01010100010 11110111110 11011111110 1111110111 1011111111 11110100111 1101110101 1111111101 1001111011 1101110111 11110110111 1001011101 1111110111 1111111110 0101001101 1111010100 1111111101 1111110001 0111110101 1101111001 0011111101 1111111101 1101111101 11010011101 1111010111 01011101001 1101110111 0101000101 01010010101 10001010101 1101110111 1101010111 10111000111 0100011001 11010110111 1101010001 1111111101 11110001011 1111110101 1001111101 1111110101 1111111100 11111101011 1101110101 1101110111 000101110001 01100111011 1101111101 1111111101 1011110011 11010100101 1101110101 11010011010 1101110111 01110111010 1111100111 1101011111 1101010111 0111010101 11110111101 1111111001 1101010111 1111010101 1111110111 1001111111 1001110001 1101110101 11011011010 1100010111 11010011000 11111100001 1111011100 1101010101 1111111111 1101111101 1001110101 1011011111 1101100101 01001111101 1001110111 01011100101 1101011111 1111110101 1101010111 10110111101 1101011101 111011101101 11111101010 0101111101 11011101110 11110011101 1101011111 11011101001 01001101110 0111010101 001110111100 11111111010 1101111111 1001010111 1101010101 0111101101 0101110111 1111000111 1110111011 1111001111 1101110101 1111011111 1011010101 1001110111 1100111111 1010011101 11011111101 1 1001110101 1001010101 01110110101 1101010101 1100011100 1001110001 0101011111 1111101111 1000011111 1111111111 1101110101 1101011101 1101010100 1101100101 1011010011 11110101001 0101011110 100100100101 101101101 1101111101 1011100111 10110100001 1100111101 1101111001 11010011101 1001001101 01001110001 1101000001 1101010101 10100011111 11110111110 1111010011 010010101110 0101111001 11010101010 1111111101 10010001010 1101010101 11111101110 1111110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 15853
  • Average number of words per stanza: 3049
  • Amount of lines: 356
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, its, of, ', he, his, you, it, in, their, him, we, that, vain, to, o are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, but, slowly, i, o are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase on connects the lines.

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