This is an analysis of the poem St. Matthias' Day that begins with:
Who is God's chosen priest?
He, who on Christ stands waiting day and night,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa Xbbb Xccd efef bgbg fefe baXa eeeX dhXh eiei cece bjbj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 101101 1111110111 11001011101 01010101 111100 0011010001 1111110101 01110101 110100 1111010101 1101110101 10110111 010001 01010000101 00010110101 10010111 1111001 1101011101 1011011111 01010101 111101 1111001111 1111110001 110100101 110101 1101011101 0101011101 11000101 101001 1001010101 110010100111 111101000 110111 1111110101 1111110100 01111111 111101 1111010101 1101010101 11111101 110111 11010010001 1101110011 1111011101 110001 1111110101 1101111011 1101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; who, and, in, her, of, our, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
The author used the same words who, but, thou at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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