This is an analysis of the poem The Star Of Bethlehem that begins with:
Where Time the measure of his hours
By changeful bud and blossom keeps,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dede fgfg dada dddd ahah dede Xhih dcdc jcjc iiii dgdX jdjd hkhk dddd jgjg ljlj dgdgXcjcj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110100010 110011101 110111010 11000101 10010101 0010101001 11110111 00110101 11010101 01011101 100111001 01111101 11110111 11010101 11010101 11110101 11110101 1100010010 10010111 010101110 1001110011 01010111 11011101 11010111 11010101 11110101 11010011 10101101 010111101 11010111 111011101 11110101 10010101 010001001 01111101 01110111 11010101 11111111 110100101 101011101 11010111 11010100 11011101 00110101 110101101 01000101 010100101 01010101 111110101 01000101 11011011 110101010 11110101 010101001 11010101 011000101 111100101 010100111 11010111 01000101 01010101 01010101 11010100 010101001 010101001 01000101 01110101 11111101 010111010 01011101 110111010 01110101 11011101 11010111 11010101 0101101001 01010101 01010101 011000101 11000101
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; strange, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words strange, and, as, the are repeated.
The author used the same word where at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Star Of Bethlehem;
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