This is an analysis of the poem To The Virgin Mary that begins with:
Mother of Him we call the Christ,
No halo round thy brows we paint,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bacX dded faga eaXa hgeg debe faha ggag eaha abdb faha hgXX hgag XdddXeece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011101 11011111 01111101 11010111 11110101 01000101 10010011 01111101 11010111 10010101 01010111 11000101 11010100 01010101 101100101 11110111 11011111 01010101 11010001 111111001 01011100 00101101 11111111 11010101 01010101 11010111 11110101 11011111 11011100 11011101 01010101 11100101 11010111 01010101 10110111 11011101 11011111 11110101 11110101 11010101 11011101 11011101 11111100 11011101 11110100 01010101 11111100 01111111 11010101 01010101 10110101 11011100 11010001 111010101 10010110 11010111 00110111 01110111 01011101 11000101 10110111 110110111 10110101 01101101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 64
- 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; we, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words how, o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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