The Statue Over The Cathedral Door. (From The German Of Julius Mosen) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Statue Over The Cathedral Door. (From The German Of Julius Mosen) that begins with:

Forms of saints and kings are standing
The cathedral door above; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xaba bcXc Xccc XdXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111110 0010101 11111010 1111101 00101011 1110101 11101110 101101001 11111111 1011101 10111010 1101101 11111110 00101011 101001110 1111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • 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; and 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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