This is an analysis of the poem Of St. Francis And The Ass that begins with:
Our father, ere he went
Out with his brother, Death, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbcbd ceceaaaa bcbdfgeg cbcbghgh ggggbgXX ijijkfke blblfkfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111 100101 101110 10111 100101 011111 11010 110100 100111 110111 010111 01101001 100111 111101 1111111 1101011 110001 110101 010101 110100 110101 101111 111111 1101111 1001011 1101011 110100 111111 010111 011101 0101001 010101 1001111 101101 110111 110111 100101 011101 10010 01010010 110111 100101 010111 1101001 110101 011101 110101 110101 111101 110101 011101 010111 010111 1101001 011101 110100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word his is repeated.
The author used the same word 'consider at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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