This is an analysis of the poem St. Julian's Prayer that begins with:

TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers,
How many round attribute all their cares!...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccbb aaXdeedd ffffgghhiiffjjkk ffffllllmmcc ddffllffddddhXggiidd nnllccmmkkoojjff ffiimmoollddddiill ddddkXmmaallddkkaaddllddffddccdddd hhllddkkdd ddXflliiffllkkmmffffff ffiiffmmccaa ddddllffeeccii llffdd ddffaaXlddii llmmddff eefXffddll ffffppddaaeeh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,16,12,20,16,18,34,10,22,12,14,6,12,8,10,18,4,22,34,22,28,19,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0111010111 1101101111 01100110101 1111011101 1001011101 1111010111 0111010101 1101010101 1101011001 1101011101 0111010101 0101000101 1101000101 0111000101 1111010111 1101000101 1101010111 1111110101 1111010111 1111100101 0101010111 0101001101 0101010101 1101010001 0111110001 0101011101 0101001101 1111010101 1101010101 0101110001 0111110101 1111011101 0101010101 1101010001 1101010011 0101011101 0101011111 11101011101 0101110101 1101000101 0101011101 0111010101 11010101011 1011011101 0101010101 1101010001 1101000101 0101010101 0111111101 0111110111 00110100001 1111011111 1111111101 1111011111 0101011111 1111011101 1101111111 0101110010 1101011001 1101111101 1111010101 1101110101 1101010101 1101011101 1101110101 0111011111 01110111001 0100011101 1101010111 0101011101 1111111011 1101001101 1111011011 1001110111 1011100101 0101010111 1111011111 1101010001 1111110001 0111110001 0101110101 0111011101 1101100101 0101110101 1110110001 1111110101 1111110011 0111111111 10101110101 1111010101 1101011101 1100010101 1101010111 11011101001 0111011111 0101010101 1101110111 1111110101 11011011111 1001111111 1111010111 10010001001 0101010111 1101010110 1111111101 11010010111 0101010101 1101110001 1101010001 1101010001 1100010101 0101011111 1101110101 1111000101 1101010101 01011111101 0101010111 11010001001 1101010101 0101111101 1111110101 0101010001 1101010101 1011110101 1101010111 1101011101 1001010001 1101110111 0101110101 0101010111 1101001111 11110111101 1111000101 1110010101 0101010111 1101110101 0100011111 1101010101 0101110101 1111110101 1101010111 1101110111 1101010101 1100110101 011001101100 11011100001 1101111101 0111010101 0101010111 0101010101 0100110001 0101110101 1101011101 1111010001 0101010101 0101110011 1100011111 1011000111 1101010101 11001010101 0111110001 0100011101 1111110101 1110010111 0101011101 1111010101 0101011001 1101010100 0101010101 1100111101 1011110001 1101010101 0101010001 1011010101 1111111101 0101001101 11110110101 1101010111 0101010111 0101010101 0101010101 1101010011 0101010001 1101110001 1101110101 0101010101 1001011101 11010010001 1101110101 1111110111 11000101001 1101010111 1101010101 1101010101 1101110111 1101110001 0101011111 1101010001 01110110101 1101111101 0111110111 0101111101 1111010010 1111010101 0101110001 1101110111 1101010101 1101110101 0101110001 1101010101 1101000101 1011010101 1101111111 1101110001 1101011001 1100010111 1101010101 0101010011 0101010001 11010101100 0101011001 1101010111 10001000101 1101111101 1111010101 1101000101 0101011101 1111010101 1101110101 0101000101 1101010101 11010101001 01001110101 1001010101 1100110101 11001110101 1101010101 0101010101 1111111101 1101010001 0111000101 1101110111 1101010111 1111010001 10010010111 1111110101 1111011101 0111010111 01010110101 1101110101 0111010101 0101010100 1100110001 1101010101 0100011101 1101110001 1101011101 1101110001 0100111001 1111010101 0101111101 1101010101 1111010111 0101110101 1101111111 1101110111 0101011111 0101110101 1101010011 1100010111 0101110101 1111010101 11111001001 0111010101 1111011001 1101110101 1101011111 1111010111 1101010101 11100111001 1110110101 1111010111 1001000111 1111111011 1111010111 1101010101 1111110001 1111011101 0111110101 1100010101 1111110101 1111010101 0101110101 1101011101 1111110101 1101010101 0101010111 1101010101 0111110001 1101111101 1111110101 0101010101 1111111111 1100101111 1100110101 0111010101 0100010101 1101110001 1101111101 1101011101 1101000101 0111001101 1101011101 0100010111 0101111101 11110111100 0010011111 1101010111 1101110101 1101010101 1101010101 11001010101 11111000101 0101010111 1101010101 1001111101 1101010111 1101110111 0101111101 1101010101 11110001101 0101011101 11010010001 1111010101 1100010001 10001010100 1110011101 0111010101 1111011111 0101010101 1101100101 1101010101 0101110101 1001111111 0100011111 0101011101 1001010101 0101110111 1101100101 110101110101 1111111101 1001101101 1101111111 1101011101 01010010101 1111000101 1001010101 0111010101 1111010101 0101010101 1100010101 1101110111 1111110111 0111010101 11011100101 11010011101 0101000101 11010010101 1101000101 0101010111 1111001001 1101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 24
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 681
  • Average number of words per stanza: 120
  • Amount of lines: 372
  • 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, to, he, you, i, that, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, a are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines round is repeated).

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  • summary of St. Julian's Prayer;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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