This is an analysis of the poem John Bede Polding that begins with:
With reverent eyes and bowed, uncovered head,
A son of sorrow kneels by fanes you knew;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd cece efef agag ahah baba ifiX aiai jXXa acac ikic dXdc kgkg ifiX gggg clcl ebeb imim fcXc inin jfjf obobXanan
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01001110101 01010111011 1101011101 0111010011 0011010101 1111110100 1101011100 1101010101 1111101101 1101010101 11010101001 1101010101 1111011101 1110010101 0101010101 0101000111 1101010111 1101111101 1111110101 0111010111 1101010111 0101011101 0101111011 1111110111 1101000111 0101011101 1111010111 1111011111 110010000101 1111011001 1101110101 01000100100 1101011110 0111000101 1011011101 0111110101 0101111101 01111101000 0100010100 0101000101 1001010111 1111010101 1101110011 0101111100 1100010101 1011100101 0101010101 0111000101 1100010101 0100111101 0101010101 0111000101 0111101101 1111110111 0111000100 1101110101 011000111 1101011100 1110110101 0111010101 11010111011 1101010100 1111010101 0101111101 01010100110 0011111101 01010100001 1101000101 0101011101 110010101001 0011010100 0101000111 1101111111 1101011101 01000010101 11110010100 1101010001 0101010101 01000111000 1111001101 1111010101 11010100101 11001010010 0011011101 1101110111 1100011111 1101100111 1111010101 1101110101 110101011 0101000101 1101010011 1111000101 0111110001 0101011101 1101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 24
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; of, too, you, to, that, may are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, of are repeated.
The author used the same word how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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