This is an analysis of the poem After An Old Legend that begins with:
The monk was praying in his cell,
With bowed head praying sore;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb Xcdc efef Xcdc Xcec afcf fghg hijX bfjf ebkb cfXX Xbjb bikX bkaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110001 011101 11010101 1111011 10011100 011101 01110111 011101 11100111 010101 11011101 010101 01110100 010111 01011011 1011101 01111001 011111 11100101 010111 01010101 110101 01010101 110101 11101100 1010101 101110101 0100101 01011111 111001 10011111 1101111 11011101 110101 10110111 0011100 01011101 111101 111100111 010101 11111101 100111 11110101 0100111 11111111 110101 01111111 111111 11011111 010101 11111101 111110 11111111 011111 010111100 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; praying is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, and are repeated.
The author used the same word his at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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