This is an analysis of the poem The British Church that begins with:
I joy, dear mother, when I view
Thy perfect lineaments, and hue... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb ddbeeb Xdfggf ddgffgXcgdgcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 10110011 1111 10011101 11010011 1111 01110101 10111111 1101 01011101 11110101 1101 11011100 10010100 1001 11110101 11011101 1001 10010011 01010111 0101 11010101 110111101 1101 11010111 01111100 1110 1011101 01011001 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; her is repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The British Church;
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