This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of The Strange Ascetic that begins with:
If I had been a Heathen,
I'd have praised the purple vine,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AabaAcXc AbbbAded AfXfAgXg AcecAcac ddXddafa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110010 1110101 1111010 111101 1100010 1011111 11111101 010101 0110010 111101 11110101 110101 1100010 1010101 10111110 010001 0110010 1111101 11011100 010001 1100010 1110101 01011101 110101 0110010 11111011 1001111 110001 1100010 1010111 11110110 1101001 1111110 010111 0101110 110101 1111010 111111 00111101 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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