This is an analysis of the poem Vision Of Saint Francis, The that begins with:

Francis D’ Assisi, gentlest Saint of Saint’s,
Within his garden where the roses grew... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXccdeXfggchXeXibXdXbdghjfeaidXgfjchehXXbjbhic
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 101010100101 0101010101 1111100100 01001100100 01111100111 0101010101 1101101101 1111110101 0110011011 1011011101 0111011101 1101110100 1101110101 1101110011 110011101 1011010101 10001011100 0101111011 11001010101 0111001100 1001010111 1111011000 0101010101 0101010101 1101011101 11001010001 1100110111 01010011 1111010111 1100010101 1111101101 0101010101 1101110111 0011000101 1101011101 01011100101 111111011 1100011101 1111011001 0010111001 1101111000 1101101101 0101010111 100101 10111111001 1100010111 0101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1025
  • Average number of words per stanza: 183
  • Amount of lines: 47
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, wondrous, strange, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.

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