This is an analysis of the poem Advent Sunday that begins with:
Awake--again the Gospel-trump is blown -
From year to year it swells with louder tone,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc aaddee ffgghh cciiaa eeggXj ffiikk jjiigg cceecc jjaaii dXggaa ggggee hhggaa llccjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101010101 0101010101 01010101 110010101 1101110101 110101110101 0111000101 11000011101 10110111 10010111 1101111101 1000110010001 0111010101 111101101 010011101 11010101 1111111101 0101010111011 11110110101 1101010101 110110101 101101001 10111011011 110101010101 10101010101 1011000101 01011101 01011001 10000101010000 0100101011101 1011010101 1111011101 10111111 1100101 110010000111 010101111001 1101010101 1011110101 01010101 110010101 11010101001 110101011101 1101010111 1111010001 10010100 110011101 1111010101 110001110101 11001010101 11110110111 11110101 11010101 1001010101 1101001001101 0101010101 11111001001 11010111 1011111 11110100101 1111110100101 0101011101 1011110101 11111111 11011101 1100011101 011111010101 11101100101 0001111111 11010101 10101111 1001011101 100100101101 111100101110 0101010010010 11110101 01010101 11110011111 1101001111111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 78
- 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; year, and, to, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word from is repeated.
The author used the same word awake at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase light connects the lines.
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- summary of Advent Sunday;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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