This is an analysis of the poem The Eve Of Saint Mark. A Fragment that begins with:
Upon a Sabbath-day it fell;
Twice holy was the Sabbath-bell ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAbbccddeeXcAacXbbffgg hhhhcXcccchhiicj bbklaaXXaahhiihhcc aaggkkggXc mmaabbccbbhhjjXgaacciieeccXgXcmmXjdXkXXXljffXXXXXmmhhj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,16,18,10,54,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 11010101 11010101 01010111 01010101 11010101 01011101 010001101 00110101 010100111 01101101 11010101 11010101 01010101 01110100 101101100 11001001 01011101 1111101 11010111 01011101 11010111 01110110 11011111 010010111 111101001 11010011 01010100 01000101 010101101 10001001 1010101 10111010 10111010 0110011 1010001 0010100 1001101 1010101 10001101 00101111 100010100 11010101 110001111 110010110 11111101 11010101 10011101 01010101 01111101 01011101 01010011 01011111 11010111 01011101 11010100 1111101 11110111 010101001 10100101 010011101 01111101 1111101 10010101 10111100 01000101 1110111 01100101 1111101 110100101 11001101 11110101 01100101 10010101 11011111 01011101 10110101 11010101 11001101 11010101 011101000 110100101 100110111 10011011 01010111 11110101 11010101 111100101 100110101 01010101 11110101 01010101 0101100 01011101 0101010 10010111 01011101 110010101 11010100 11101101 11110111 0111101 11010110 0100100 1101101 10010000 1101001010 01011101 110110101 01101111 1111010 100110 1111100 01101110 11010111 01010100 11000101 01010101 110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 675
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 119
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
The author used the same word all at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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