This is an analysis of the poem The May Magnificat that begins with:
May is Mary's month, and I
Muse at that and wonder why: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aacX ccXX ccdd ccee bbff dXee eeee ggaa Xfhh ggXf iiXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111 1111101 011010 101010 100101 101011 1101010 00100010 001001010 10111010 001000 110110 10001010 0011010 101001 101001 1111110 11101010 1111010 101010 10010111 1110101 111101 011111 11101110 1011000 01100 10101 110100101 001101 110001 10101 1111110 110101 11101 0100101 1101111 1101010 11011110 010110 110010101 11111111 110100 111101 0100111001 11001111 001011000 01110010
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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 is repeated.
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- summary of The May Magnificat;
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- history of its creation;
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