This is an analysis of the poem Seventeenth Sunday After Trinity that begins with:
Stately thy walls, and holy are the prayers
Which day and night before thine altars rise:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabb cdcdee fgfgdd hghgii dbdbcc aeXegg bebeii ecXcgg Xgjggg cjXjbb iiXiak bdbXkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011110101 1111011101 1100100100101 111010101 11001011101 0101010101 0101011101 1101111101 01011101101 11110100101 1001110101 0101010101 011111101 1101110101 1110101001 1001011101 1111010101 0101001110101 01001000101 10110101010 1111110001 11010011110 1101011101 01000101010 1101110011 1101110101 1111010101 1101010101 1101010101 11011101101 1111011111 1101110011 1111111000 1101101111 1111110101 110101111101 1001010111 1101101101 1101111101 11001001101 1111111101 01010011101 0101010101 1111011101 01010101010 1111111101 1111010111 111101111101 0101110101 1111011101 1011010101 1100110111 1101100101 1011110101 1101111001 0111010101 11110110010 1101110101 1001001101 1111111111 1111010101 11111001100 1011010110 1011011101 1101010101 100110110101 1101110100 0111010111 111010101101 111001101110 1101011111 110111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 276
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; her, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ere, nor are repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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