This is an analysis of the poem A Song For St. Cecilia's Day, At Oxford that begins with:
I.
Cecilia, whose exalted hymns ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXcadbbaee Xffbbbgaageeee XaXhhciicjjgkkgll XbabdeebbjlXlaXmamXgajbjbleleii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,14,17,31,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 01010101 01110101 010100100 11010101 010100111 11010100 01010011111 01011101 111111110101 1100111001 0101101011 1 11100101 10010001 11011101 11100111 01010001 1001111101 01001010101 0101010101 1101110101 1001110111 010100101 0101001001 01110011 1 11010101 0101010 1001001101 110101101 10110101 01010101 0101010011 1101010101 1100101001 01110101 010010001 01110111 01010101 11010001 0101010111 110110101 1 10010101 01011101 110001010 1100010100 10101000101 1111110001 110111001 11001001110111 11011011 11100101 101101010 1101010001 11110101 01010101 11011001101 11010101 0101000101 111111 1010111 010101011110111 010101 11010101 110101 11011101 110111001 11011101 110101001 11010101 01110011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 517
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 73
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, music, it, nor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, nor are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word song at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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