This is an analysis of the poem Death Of Archbishop Turpin. (From The French) that begins with:

The Archbishop, whom God loved in high degree,
Beheld his wounds all bleeding fresh and free; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccXcddXeffbb ggaahhXXiiaaXXiijjaX ccjjeedddd XXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,20,10,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 01101110101 1001110111 1101110111 1011010101 0101010111 1101100101 10010001100 1101010001 1100010101 1011110101 110111111001 0101110111 0101111101 1111101101 01011100101 111101111101 1101110101 1111010111 1101001111 11001010101 1101011011 0101110011 0101111111 11010101110 0101110111 1101110101 10110100111 10011110011 1101010101 0101000101 1001001111 1111110101 0101110101 1111011101 1100110111 111000010100 011011111001 0101010101 0111011101 11001010101 1101010101 1101110101 011011010111 1111111101 1001011101 0101111101 1101010010 0101111100 1101101100 1101010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 574
  • Average number of words per stanza: 103
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; and, his, there, he, to, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.

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