This is an analysis of the poem Lenton Communion that begins with:

Rest in a friend's house, Dear, I pray:
The way is long to Good Friday,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aba ccX ddX eee fff eee gXg aab hhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011111 01010011 11011101 11000101 10110101 10011010 11011101 11111101 01011011 111101111 10111101 11011111 10010111 11110111 10111001 11110111 10010101 1011101001 11111111 0111010 11011101 11010011 110101001 11110100 11110101 01010111 11110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 106
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and, my are repeated.

    The author used the same word sit at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Lenton Communion;
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