This is an analysis of the poem At Thurgarton Church that begins with:
To the memory of my father
At Thurgarton Church the sun ...
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- Rhyme scheme: a babac defec ghghc gegec ibibc jXjak glglc mnmnc eoeoc dbbdc gfgfc ajpjc jXjXc pqpqc ajajX alalc memec ohohc Xhghc rgrgc obboc pspsk obobc alalc lglgc cjcgc lrlrc nhhncXngngn
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001000110 1100101 1010110 01101 111110 0101011 110100 011011 100101 010001 011101 010111 101111 101101 1011011 11000101 1101111 0011111 1101011 011111 1110111 1111110 0010111 110010110 0101101 111101 10111101 0101011 11101101 01001010 11010011 1101001 0110100 111001011 1110111 1100101 11111111 110011 1111001 100111 110111 111111 0011010 0011111 011001010 10101 1011110 01001111 1010111 011110 11010101 100011 1101101 0010010011 0000101 01011 0101110 110100010 0110110 1010010 101101 101001 1111010 100101 011010110 111101 111010 10110001 11010110 1011101 01101 100010 11101 1010010 011011 10111010 11101010 01111 11110 010001 011101 010011 11011 01010100 11101 011101 10011 11011 001101 10001111 111001 1101001 111101 0100101 010111 111101 111101 10111111 101001 01010001 100101 01000100 10101010 01001110 01001101 111011 01001110 110111 110010 1011001 10011 01001101 110111 0101101 1111101 111001 1110010 011111 10101110 111111 1101011 0111111 110011 0101011 11101 100111 0000101 001101 110101 10101101 101111 1100101 110111 0111111 111001 101101 11011011 1010101 111001 1111111 1001111 1100111 111001 11110011 1010101 0101101
- Amount of stanzas: 30
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 146
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, of, all, we, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The author used the same words i, and, desire at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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