This is an analysis of the poem The Golden Legend: Prologue & 1. that begins with:
THE SPIRE OF STRASBURG CATHEDRAL.
Night and storm. LUCIFER, with the Powers of the... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a Xb cbbbd Eefed XXX ghheg fbhgg XXX Xhcie EaXbe XXX fXfgh EffbX XXX heggc hheec e XX c cb ccjjddfXgdffhhcchhkkllddeeffkmkk bbcceekm bbddeejj fc m bl bb c bee l ghghh k fkccfl no mnnnmmfafkeakeh iXe cf c b iifhcfhc ccll g hhoogdbf ffbXcbfk X X m km aff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,5,5,3,5,5,3,5,5,3,5,5,3,5,5,1,2,1,2,32,8,8,2,1,2,2,1,3,1,5,1,6,2,15,3,2,1,1,8,4,1,8,8,1,1,1,2,17,5,24,1,1,10,5,4,4,5,1,2,1,2,2,13,1,9,6,14,9,14,1,10,13,1,6,1,1,21,1,8,1,5,1,4,3,1,2,2,15,1,5,1,16,2,9,12,10,16,1,20,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010010 111100001000 11001101 1001010 1110 001010100 10101011 0100101 101110 1010 101110010 10100010 1011101 0110110 1010 10010 1001010 1010 101010011 10100010 10011010 101110 1110 11110010 10101010 10111110 0110010 1010 10100 10010100 1010 11101110 10011010 1010101 101110 0110 101010010 001010111 11101001 0110010 10010 10010 1001110 1010 10101010 10101110 1010001 101110 0010 10101010 11101010 11100100 0110010 10010 1010 1001010 0010 10101010 10101010 1011101 101010 0011 10111110 10111010 1011101 110110101001 101100 11010 1010010101 01000101101001 1110 11011011101 11010101 11010101 00010101 01011101 110010111 111010101 110001000 01110100 11010111 1100101 10010101 111101010 1110001010 11110111 01010001 111111110 110111010 11010101 11011101 11010111 01010101 01110101 11011011 11010001 00010001 110111010 101100010 11111100 01011100 11111101 11110101 011100101 11010111 10111101 11010101 01110101 01110101 11110011 00010100 11111111 01011111 11000101 01111101 10000101 01010101 10010111 10000101 0101010110001 00100100010 10011110 110101001 11111 100111 010100001 1101110 1000101 11110101 11110111 11010111 10011010 0110101001 100101001010 111010101 111111101 11011111100 1001011011010 11010101 100100010 100111010 010100010 111111 110111 0101 10011010 1100101101 1101001010 1101001010 1100100110 1100101010 1100100011 110101010 0110111001 00101001111 1111001001 01100100110 1100101011 11101011001 01011 11001001011 1111101010 010011101 100010011001 111101 1101111 10010110 1100111 0100101001 10011011 10110001 111010101 1010100111 1101011101 1011111101 10011100001 0010100100 1101110011 110010010011 1101110 1000111 111001110 0010101101 010011111 010101110 1010101111 111010010 11010 110111 0100111 1010101110 10010010 11111101 111010010 11100100 01001100 100111000 1101000 100101100 110111 100100100 100101001110100 010100101 0011100101 10011011 110110101 10010011 111110101 001011111 110010001 01010111 11111101 100110111 01001101 110110101 1010010101 11001000 01010110010 1101011011010 011110110 111101001 0100101010100 11101111 10010011001 010101000 110010001 010100001 001011101 0101001100 1100010001 01010111 01010101 01010111 11000101 100101010 00110001 11010101 01010111 010111010 0100100101 10100101 0101110010 010111110 01010101 0010001001 110100101 11010111 1101101 1001111 11011010011 01001101 01010101 00110101 110101001 01000100 11010111 01010100 11010101 01010101 100100101010101 010100010 0011011000 01010111 10110101 11011011101 11110011 010100111 1000100101 1000001001001 11011101 01010101 01010 110001 010100101 11000101 11010101 11010101 10001110 110011 01 100011111 11000010101 11110111 10010110100011 111100111 11011111101 00110111 01010111 01110111 11110101 00111111 11010111 11010001 110001100 01111101 11010101 11011101 11010101 1100110110001 10110101 1100101 01 10100001 0100 010110101 01 0101 101101 100101011 11111 1000101 00010001 0111011 1011010101 1101000101010 11001 1101 0100101010 01010111 10111111 111111 0101 111110011 0111 100101000 01010 0100111101 1111 0100010100100101 1010 00101001101010110 001010010101101 00101001010111 01010 010 01010 01101100 11011 111111 11111111 010101010 11010111 11 11010111 011111 0111011 1001000101 010101 11010010101 0110100 01110000 101 010101011 001111 00101 001001 001001 10110101 00100101 01101 1101011 111 1101011110111 11011111 1011101 10100101 110111011 1111111 10101110 10101010 11101010 11101010 110001010 10101010 11101110 011101 0100100101 101001010 1111 111101101 100101 1101010010 110010 10101011 1011011101 100010101 01010101 11000101 100110101 11110111 01011101 11010101 10010011 11011100 11010101 01010111 1101101 11011101 11110101 111111001 01010001 11010111 11010111 10110101 11010011 011 11110101 01100111 11010101 01010001 110010101 11010101 10000101 010001001 101001000 10111101110 11010001 11011100 110111010 00110 1011010 10011111010 101111110 1111110110 1110100010 10101101110 1111001010 1110101001 101001 101011 11011111 1010110111 0011 101011 01010001 11100101 110010111 01010001 10010101 11111101 11110001 1010001 001101101 111100101 011101111 110110001 1110001 110101011 1011 101111110 11011101 01110011 01110111 111101010 101001 1010110 11111101 1101001001 0101011010 101101110 11110101 01000111 1001111010 10011111 10110100 110010111 00011100 10010101 110010101 1110001001 01110001 101100111010 110100010 10110100101 11010111 100100101 10010101 01010111 11100101 01010101 01010101 11001100 1010111111 01010101 11010101 101111101 01010111 01010011 110100101 11011101 01110011 10111111 11110111 101 1000100 100101000 11011101 01010011 11010001 11011111 11011101 11101111 01110100 11011101 1011010101 11010101 11010011 11010101 01010101 11111101 00011111 11011111 00010101 01010101 11011001 11111111 11111001 11110111 011100101 01011101 10100101 0101110001 0101100011 11010001010 0110010111 1101010101 11010111010 11010111010 1001100110 11010101110 1101010111 11011001010 1100010101 1100001101 101111001001 0101010101 1011010101 1101010101 1101100101 1111011101 1001011001110
- Amount of stanzas: 103
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 545
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, rest, who, i, that, it, you, woe, but, me, bitter, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words stand, come, the, nor, it, golden, hubert, no, and are repeated.
The author used the same word hubert at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you, abyss are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases prince, you, hubert, walter connect the lines.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Golden Legend: Prologue & 1.;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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