This is an analysis of the poem The Life Of The Virgin Mary that begins with:
Oh sweet life, oh dear Saint Mary,
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcbXdefgdcahhihiXfcaahgjkbjhejhecfhibhkjfXjaXXhkfhejiXXeaXjhffiahhhake
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 72,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111110 10111010 11101011 11101110 11111011 10111010 1111111 01100010 11011010 11101101 11111110 10110110 00100010 101010010 11101010 011111010 01010111 110111010 10111110 11101010 110111111 11111111 11101010 11101011 0110111 00101010 0110101 011101101 11111110 10101011 11101111 10101001 00101010 10111010 10110011 01111010 10101010 10111111 11100011 10111010 110101010 10101010 11101110 110111010 10111010 11100110 11101111 10101111 01011101 010111110 10100110 10101011 10101011 11111010 01101010 010101111 101001011 10101010 010011110 010101010 00101010 10001110 10101110 10110110 010111010 10101111 10101110 11101010 110111011 10111010 10111110 11111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2523
- Average number of words per stanza: 459
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; you, your, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, with, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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