This is an analysis of the poem Sabbath Bells that begins with:
Oh holy Sabbath bells,
Ye have a pleasant voice!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaab cacca dbddb efeef fXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 110101 11011101 11010101 011001 110101 011101 01010101 11111111 010101 1101001 110111 010101001 11010111 111101 110101 110010 11111101 11111101 110101 10 010 11
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word as at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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