This is an analysis of the poem The Children Of The Lord's Supper. (From The Swedish Of Bishop Tegner) that begins with:

Pentecost, day of rejoicing, had come. The church of the village
Gleaming stood in the morning's sheen. On the spire of the bell... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,29,29,8,32,161,79,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2877
  • Average number of words per stanza: 519
  • Amount of lines: 376
  • Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, with, his, from, as, in, faith, not, upon, to, your, she, at, you, love, thou, one, for, it, they, i, thy, may, me, them, ye, fall, us, their are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines atonement is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases worship, only connect the lines.

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