This is an analysis of the poem Nineteenth Sunday After Trinity that begins with:
When Persecution's torrent blaze
Wraps the unshrinking Martyr's head;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dbdbcc bebeff bebegg bhbhhh dbdXii fjfjbb kbkbee ikikll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11000101 10100101 111101011 11011111 010101110 110101110 11110101 01110111 10011101 01010101 11010110 010101010 11010101 1100010011 11010101 11010101 011110100 111100101 101111111 01100111 11010111 01000101 10111101 11010111 10010101011 01010111 010101001 11111101 010101011 11011111 11111111 01010111 11011101 011100100 11110101 01110101 01010101 10111111 10011101 10011101 11010001 11011101 01010101 01011101 11000101 01101001 11010101 11010111 11111111 10111111 11111101 01001101 110111111 0101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; when, his, in, still, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, the, still are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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