This is an analysis of the poem The Knights Of St. John that begins with:
Oh, nobly shone the fearful cross upon your mail afar,
When Rhodes and Acre hailed your might, O lions of the war!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaXXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101011101 11110111110001 1101001011101001 11000101010101 11110101010101 11011111110001 110111110101010 010101110111010 010001111001010 011100010100110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 606
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Knights Of St. John;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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