This is an analysis of the poem A Recusant that begins with:
THE CHURCH stands there beyond the orchard-blooms:
How yearningly I gaze upon its spire!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXababbcbcdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0111010101 1100110101 10010010111 01000111010 1111001111 0100011101 1101111101 0100100101 1101000111 0101011111 1101111101 1110100101 1001101101 11010001111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 595
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; to, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word all is repeated.
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