This is an analysis of the poem Rheims Cathedral -- 1914 that begins with:
A wingèd death has smitten dumb thy bells,
And poured them molten from thy tragic towers: ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXabba cXdcXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 011110111 11010011010 11010110110 10111001100 1101010110 0101010111 0101111101 1001111101 11110111001 1101010001 1101010101 0101111101 1101111000 11111100011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 314
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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