This is an analysis of the poem St.Thomas that begins with:

At time of Oddfellow's Grand Lodge meeting, 1884.
Oddfellows once they had to trudge...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aabbcccccdeeddccffgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,20,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010011101 10011101 101110011 11110101 11010101 11000101 10111011 110101010 10101010 11101111 110110110 110001010 11111110 11010111 0011111 11010101 01011101 11111101 11101100 110010101 11010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 368
  • Average number of words per stanza: 68
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • 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; it is repeated.

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  • summary of St.Thomas;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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