This is an analysis of the poem The Circumcision Of Christ that begins with:
The year begins with Thee,
And Thou beginn'st with woe,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ecec fgfg cdcd hdhd dede baba ijij bkbk didi aeXe eded kbkb gdgd jcjc lili
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101 111001 01010101 111111 110111 110101 11010101 110101 110101 110101 11110101 1101001 110111 010101 1000101101 110101 100101 011101 01010101 010101 101111 101101 10010101 010111 111111 111111 110101111 010101 111101 110111 101100101 110011 110101 111011 11010101 110101 010101 1101101 11010101 0110101 010111 0101011 11010111 010101 110100 111111 11010100 110101 111101 111101 10110101 010101 110101 100111 11011100 110111 110101 111101 01011101 010101 111111 010010 100011101 0100111 011101 110101 11010111 001101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, here are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word here is repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Circumcision Of Christ;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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