This is an analysis of the poem Macarius The Monk that begins with:
IN the old days, while yet the Church was young,
And men believed that praise of God was sung ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccdbededfghhghhiijjkkbbbX ddaaddddllhhkXXXkk ccmmdffdlliiXm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,18,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0011110111 1101110111 0101111101 110110011 0101010101 0101010101 010100111001 1101010001 1101010101 1111110111 11011111000 0111010110 1101011111 1101110101 0101110011 1001010101 1101010111 1111010101 0101110101 1101010101 11011101110 10010111010 01110101110 01010111010 11010110110 11010111110 11111111110 11110111010 1111111101 1111010101 1101011101 1101110101 1101011101 11010100111 11010101001 1101010101 1001011111 010011001001 0101010101 1111111001 01001010101 100101101010 1111111101 1101010111 1101000101 1001011101 1110010101 0101110101 1101100101 1101011111 1101111001 11110101010 01010100010 1101011111 0101010111 0111001001 11011111101 1110110101 1101010101 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 924
- Average number of words per stanza: 173
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, he, his, to, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, to, and are repeated.
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