This is an analysis of the poem The Legend Of The Crossbill. (From The German Of Julius Mosen) that begins with:
On the cross the dying Saviour
Heavenward lifts his eyelids calm, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba cdcd beXe XXXX XdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 10010111 111010100 0011101 11101010 1110101 10101010 01010101 10111010 0010111 001111010 010101 10101010 1010100 11100010 1011101 11101011 1010111 00101010 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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