This is an analysis of the poem The True Christians that begins with:
So stick up ivy and the bays,
And then restore the heathen ways.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddccddeeffXXaaXXgghhee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 11010101 100110001 10110101 11000111 11110111 111101101 10011111 11011100 01110101 01000111 11010111 11010011 10010101 01111111 11010111 11110111 01100100 11110111 01010101 10110100 111101001 11010101 01111111 11010110 11001111 11011101 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1001
- Average number of words per stanza: 184
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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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