This is an analysis of the poem The Eve Of St. Agnes that begins with:

ST Agnes' Eve---Ah, bitter chill it was!
The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbbdbdX eaeaaaXaa fgfgghghh ibibbcbcc jkXkkfkff hihiXfill eeeeefeXf aiaiieXXe falaaeaee mamaamamm nbnbbcbcc bibiififX knXnnknkX hahXahahX eoeoobobb aiaiininX XcfccacaX mgmggXXpp jbjXbXbii nfnffbfbX fifiieiXe Xfbffbfbb ebebbmbmm aXccaaXXa eieiiiXii eaeaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,19,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101110101 0111010101 01110010101 1101010101 1001010111 0100110101 1100100101 11011100101 101101010111 0111010101 1101110001 111001111 01010101101 0101111101 10000110001 1101001100 1101101101 011111010111 1011010101 1111110101 100101111 1101010101 0101010111 0111011101 0101111101 1101110101 111101110101 1101010111 110101100111 0100111101 0101010101 0101010011 0100010101 011010101 1101110101 011111111111 1110010100 0101011101 10011110100 0111010101 0101111101 1111001101 1111011101 1111110101 111111110101 1101011101 1101110001 1110001101 01010010001 0101011010 1100011101 1101110101 11011111010 01001011111010 1001110100 0101010101 1101010101 11011100101 1111011101 110011100100 1101111101 1111011100 111101010001 1101010101 1001010111 01010111111 0101010101 0100010101 1101010111 1101010110 1011010110 110100010101 1100110001 1101110101 11110001110 1100010101 1001111101 1101110100 111100010010 1111110101 011111011110 1100111101 1101010101 0101110101 11110101001 0101011101 1101110001 01010011101 1101001101 111101010101 110101101 10010100101 011110011 0101110101 0101001101 1100111101 1101000101 1010010011001 1011101011101 10111110101 1101011001 111111111 1111110101 1110110111 110110010101 1101100111 111101011111 1011111100110 110101011 1001100101 111101001010 1110010111 11001110101 1011101000011 101110010101 1111010011 1011101110100 1101001101 1101001101 1111000101 1011010111 0101011001 0111001101 11110101001 0101010001 11110111010100 1011000101 1100010111 110101111 1101010101 1100110101 1101110111 0101011111 1101011001 110001010101 1001110111 100110011 1101011101 0100110101 10101101011 1101011111 0100010101 0101111111 1111000111110 100110111110 11001011111 1111110011 0100110101 1101010001 0100011111 1101000101 0101011101 11011011011110 10111100101 0111010111 1101110111 111111110 01010110111 0101010100 1101011100 1100110101 110111010111 1101101100 100100010111 1001001100 1111010100 1101110101 11001010100 1101010101 1011011101 110101010101 101011100101 1011101011 10101110101 0111111101 1111110111 11010011101 1111010101 0111110101 1111011101010 11011010101 0101010101 0101110001 010001101 010110111 11001010011 0101010111 1100110110 011101010001 0101010100 1100110101 110011011 11010010101 0101011101 111101101 0011010101 1100110111 11110111111 1101011100 0101010111 1101110101 0100011101 1101001101 1001011100 1001000101 11010010011 010111110001 01001110111 1100010100 01110110011 1100010101 01000011101 11010111001 1001110100 1111111000 010101010111 11010010101 111101100011 1111110111 1111010101 1101011100 1101010101 1101010101 1111010011 111101110101 1001010101 0101010111 100110111 1001010101 01010110001 1101011011 1001110111 0101110001 111101110101 11000011101 01010010111 0101010101 011110101 1101010101 10010010111 1101011101 1001011101 110111100101 1001011101 1001010101 11000100010 0100010100 1111101011 1101100101 10011001100 1100110101 110101111111 1101110101 1011011111 0101110101 0101010111 1111010100 01001110100 0101111101 1001110101 011101110101 1111110101 01010111000 1101010101 0101011111 0101010101 1101010100 1011010001 0111101001 0101000100100 11000110101 1101010101 0101010011 000110001 1001010011 10111110101 11110111100 1011111101 11110111111100 110001011 1001010101 1011010111 010001111 0101000111 1101010101 0111010101 0101010101 1101100010100 01001110101 110010111000 1111010111 010110111100 1001100100 10001110011 1111011100 0110011101 010111111101 0101011110 1101010001 1101011101 0100011111 1111000101 11110101001 1101110011 110111101 100111111100 1010001110101 1111110011 1100100101 11110100011 1111110111 1111011100 1101011001 1111000101 1011111111010 0101010101 11010010101 01001110101 11010010101 0001110101 1001000100 0101110111 11100100011 010101110111 1111000111 1001111110000 110111111 10101011101 10001110111 1011011101 1111110101 111000011 0101110110010 10100110101 1110111101 1101111101 1101101111 10110100111 01001011100 1111101111 1001110111 011100011101 10111010101 0101010101 0101010011 0101000101 1101110101 1111011101 1101010101 0101111100 11001011101110 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1011010111 0101111101 01111100111 0101010111 1000010111 101101010101 1111000011 1100010111 1101000101 0011010101 01001011101 1010011111 1111011101 0111010101 011101010101 1111110101 1101010001 11010101001 11010010111 0111011101 01010010001 110101111 0101010101 111011010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 42
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 430
  • Average number of words per stanza: 70
  • Amount of lines: 378
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; his, and, she, to, in, here, st, i, my, her, of, on are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, she, he, to, a, whose, and, from are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase flit connects the lines.

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