This is an analysis of the poem St. John's, Cambridge that begins with:
I stand beneath the tree, whose branches shade
Thy western window, Chapel of St. John!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXaaXbacdXcdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101011101 1101010011 1101011100 11111101001 1101010111 0011010100110 11110111001 1101011101 1101000101 10011111010 11001011101 1101011101 11011101010 010101100000
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 625
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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