This is an analysis of the poem Frank Little At Calvary that begins with:

I
He walked under the shadow of the Hill...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcdefcgcbXcgce cdfgahXai ibdadddejjd adcijdaaX hjjijcdifcdi XXXddhc X eXcdi X cb X djicbidcjibjjXdX cgcdcgji bXecbcb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,9,11,9,12,7,1,5,1,2,1,16,8,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1110011001 111100010 1101 01101 110010011 1110101 1111 100101010 111001001 010011 1111001001 01010 01001010 10010 11101110 11011111 1011011 11011111 01011101 01101001 11111100111 11000111 1101001 1110111 10011 011100 10111 001101 110111 111101 01011101 11110101 111101 1000001001 11110101 110101 100101 0111 1001010100 1111010001 100101 11110111 1011100 111101 1111010101 011101 1111110001 100111 111101110010 0110101 10100111 10010101 010010 11110111 1010001 1111110100 0100011101 1110110011 111111001 11011101 1001101001 1011101 1 1101 10011 010101 1101010 101 101001 1101 11 1 1 101 11011100101 110011 100100110110001 0101001000101 1 1001100100 1001101000101 1001011 01001001 11001010101 001111001010100 110100110110 0101000101 11010 1001100101 10110 111101 1001011001 110010101 100010 10100101 01110001001 101001 11 0101 1100001 11010101 11001
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 103
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; of, and, light are repeated.

    The author used the same words i, light at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines against is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word hill at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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