This is an analysis of the poem The Golden Legend: V. A Covered Bridge At Lucerne that begins with:
_Prince Henry_. God's blessing on the architects who build
The bridges o'er swift rivers and abysses... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdefghf cd X b ebegibb j fdklX g fkmg fXk cf b ial bgkbnd fX b lobeX ccpqfm acggoneb j fom hd pbnfakXcXfccapc F h d hhlrlbdr S ddffdnnf S ggnXbb S Xlttlmafbab X aaagga F add d cmdcld cd fl bnnc cXf cjpb c m pXgf d o ufd Xpjcbbbe cktX F d f
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,2,1,1,7,1,5,1,4,3,2,1,3,6,2,1,5,6,8,1,3,2,15,1,1,1,8,1,8,1,6,1,11,1,6,1,3,1,6,2,2,4,3,4,1,1,4,1,1,3,8,4,1,1,1,12,4,2,2,9,19,4,22,4,4,2,6,1,2,4,13,7,2,1,2,24,6,1,1,17,12,12,12,21,9,1,16,2,7,8,4,17,24,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101101010111 010101101100 0101000101 11110100010 1101110101 0111000101 11010100010 10010110110 11010001001 1101010 101101 11110101011 11001100 101 1100101 11101111010 1001110101 010101010010 10010101001 0101010111 11011001110 10111101 11001010 1111010011 0100101001010 0111010101 011101 1010010 1100001110001 11101001010 1101111111 01010101010 10110101011110 011100100 111101001010 11011110010111 110001 100101 1101101001101 1001000101 1100010001 1011011101101 11110101110 11010000010 0101000101 1100011101 10010 110100010 10111101111 1011001101010 11011010100011 0111000100 1001110101 01001001101 001011001110 1010011111010 1101010011 1101010101 10011101110 1011110101 1011010111 11010110101001 0111111101 11110111010 01000100010 01011111010 1111011101 0011010001 1101010100 101001001 1101010 11111101010 11111101010 1001010101 10010110110 11001000111011 101110 0111000101 10111010101 0110110111 11011101010 0010010101 1100011101 010011011000 011100101010 10010001010 11010100010 1001110101 1001010101 1001000101 111 0101 110110100010 101010101 001010101 0101010010 10011111 100101010 01000111 110110100 11110101 10010011111 11010110 11010101 1010111 101010101 110100100 11001111 0011101 1111001 10010011111 11110010010 100010010 111100101 01010111 101010001 110100101 10010011111 1101000100 11011101 101100101 10110101 1010101 1011010010 1010100101 10101010 10110111 100100001 10010101 10010011111100 11101101010 01010101 10100101 10101110 1011001010 010101010 111 10010011111010 11011110 0101110001 01101 11000010111010 11010011111 11111101010 0101000001 110100100010 11011011101 1011110010110 1111 1101111010 101010101010 101101011101 11001011101 1001010101 010011001110 1101111001010010 11011111000 1111110101 1011011011111 0111010101 1110010111 1101 11001001010 1011011100 11011 0100010111 11011110110 0001010101 1011001101011 110100100 10100010 11000001010 0101 11010100 0111010101 1101011001 11010101010 1100111101 01001101011 1000010101 10010011 111 0111010111 1111001101 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0111111001 111101110 01010 1010010101 1101101010111 11010 1010110111 1111011101 1011111001 1100011101 11011111101011 0111011111 0101111101 1111100101 1101100101 1001011101 1111011011 10110101100 0101010110 1101010101 0101000111 1111010111 1111 10100011010 0100010101 0101000100 01010001010 1101011011 1101011101 0101001000 1101111100111 1111111100 10010101101010 1010111 1101010101 110000101101 10110011100 1111110101 0101000101 01010101010 01010101010 11000111001 110110111010 0101010011 100111100010 0100010101 1011010101 11100111000 1101001101 11110010011 0101110101 10001111010 111001011010 10111101101 1001001101 1111001110 1101010101 000101010110 1101011101 101001111001010 10101000 10101010 01001100 11001100 11001100 011100 0101010011 11000010001 01011000 1011000010 10100011 01110011 01110101 11000101 101110010 11111101 11010101 01011111 01011111 01000101 11000011 11111001 11011111 11110111 01010101 10111000 01011100 01010101 11110111 11111111 10110100 10100100 11010010 01000101 10110011 01010101 10010001111101 1110 111010010 0101001001 10111101 1011001101 111111101 1101100111 1101 1010010 010101010 11110111 11001011101 010010101 01010001 11110110 01000111 11000101 11010111 11010101 010111010 01010111 11110101 01001100 1010001001010 0101110 111110 10111010 0010001 110110110 011101 11001010 0010100 00101010 1011101 00100010 00100101 11001010 110101 0111010 010101 1101010 010111 10111110 1100 1101001110101 01010100100 1101110101 1010010001 1101011101 1001010001 1101010001 1111010101 1101010001 11 11001011101 110101001 11011101 10110101 01010111 110100101 110101001 11011101 11010100 01110101 01010001 10010111 01000101 11011101 01010101 11010101 11011110111 110101111 100111110 11011001 110100101 01011101 11010101 11011101 10010101 11011110111 01010101 00110111 010000101 110101100 01010111 110100101 11010101 101001001001 10100110 110010010 100100010 11011101101 01010101 101010001 1010011 1110011101 1010111 100101001 1110010100 1010010111 10100111101 11111101 0110010111 101001101001 11111111001 100110111 110101101 1010110100 1111100010 110001010 10001010 11101011000 11111101010 011101001 01100101 1001000110 1101001000 111101000 100111010 11010111 11010100 1110011001 0010010101 10101011 11010101 11111011000 1101001001 11010101 11011001110 001011111 111010100
- Amount of stanzas: 104
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 513
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; to, and, it, of, her, bridge, our, cujus, this, i, in, hac, your, cuthbert, so, urbs, te, sea, gather are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, cujus, such, in, the, so, te, a, thou, they are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines angels, it are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word antonio at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase friar connects the lines.
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