This is an analysis of the poem Christ At Carnival that begins with:

THE hand of carnival was at my door,
I listened to its knocking, and sped down: ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababccbbddccef fbbgggggeeg bhbbbihbi edjdeebbdgggg jkjkffXfelljfjfaaamm bbgXglXilnlX ffXjjlloojjjilelXXppfdX bfbffggXbXbX qXiXqXilbXbfffffmXbrbsrX nqqiXlXafaftftXlilX ffggubcbiX elejlljffXfflXlXlXl oojjaafbssbX bbllphphlXlqulcfflaalkk llffiiXaaf ijijgmgji
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,11,9,13,20,12,23,12,24,19,10,19,12,23,10,10,5,27,10,6,16,12,15,30,7,21,2,27,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101001111 1100010111 1101010111 11010100001 01001011110 11100010 1011010101 01011011 10010101001 111110 1111010 01010101010 1001010100 1110010101 10010101 1111111101 10011100111 1100111100 1001011101 01110100 1011011111 1111011100 11011100 11110001 11011100 0101111100 010101001 011111 110101 1001101100 1101110101 1011010011 1001010111 1100110111 1001000101 1101010101 0101110101 010101 110101 010111 1101110001 0111010101 110101 11110100010 1011010111 01110100010 1110100 1001011111 0101010101 11110101 10110010111 0101011101 1101010101 1011011100 0100010101 10111101001 1011010111 0111110101 111111 01011101 101100 111010111 1101111101 11000101 111111 1001010101 1011010011 1111011111 01011011100 1011010100 11111101100 1101110111 1001110101 10011101110 10110111 111111101 1110011100 01010111101 11110101110 1001110101 011001 1010111111000 110111 1101000101 1111010101 1101011101 1011 0111010101 1101110100 1110011111 110011 1101011101 111 1010100011 0101010111 1101110100 01001011111 1111010111 010011 11101010111 1111010001 0111010 1010111011110 1111010001 11111101010 0101010100 0101010111 1111010101 0101011100 11110101110 0111111001 101101110100 1111010001 1111010 10111010111 01110111010 11010110111 011110100 1101011100 1011111101 1101111110 1110110101 101101 100111110 011101 111111 0111 1111101101 11101 1111110101 11011101 0110000 101001001110101 11111101 11111 101111101 1101110111 11011111010 0011010100 1011010111 0101 1001011101 101011011010010 101011101001 1101100 01010101101 111001010111 1111001111 1101110111 1101 11001110101 1111100001 111111010000 01010101101 1101011111 101100100101 101110101000 10111000101 11110110101 0011011100 1001110101 1101 10110100111 1111001100 0100101 101111 11111111110 1011010101 0111110101 10110001 100010001 101111 1001110111 11011 10101111111 00101111001 110101110 11010110001 11100100101 0101001101 1101010100 110110101 10011101110 1101100111 1101100010 1111010101 10111010111 1011110101 1011110101 1101111101 1111000111 1101111111 1100111111 1111010011 1111000101 0101001101 1101000100 011100101010 1001011111 1011010111 1111 1100101 10010101 111011 011101 0111111101 0101 1011010101 1101011111 0101110001 1111110101 001110101 1101010100 01001010111 010111 0111011 0111011101 1101010101 000101 111111 011100010101 0101110111 011101 0101101101 011011 00110101 101101 101001100 1111110101 0111110111 001101011 10001011101 0111011100 1101011111 0101111101 1011100101 0100110001 1101110101 1001111111 0101010101 11010 1111010100 10101111111 1101011100 1101111011 101111110100 1111010111 1101011100 101110111101 10011010 101111111010 11111101110 101111101001 1111011100 1111111101 1111010101 0111011101 1101001 0111010101 1011110101 01011111 10111110011 1101011101 1001000101 000101 011111 1101001111 1110110100 1111010110 1101111101 1111010100 0111111101 0111001111 0111010001 1100001 0111010101 01001001101 0101000101 0101001101 1111110001 1101 0101010101 111101010100 1101011111 0111110111 10010110101 0111011101 1011011101 1111100111 1111111101 00111110101 1111011101 1111010101 1101110111 010101 10011011001 1101010100 011010101 011101 1111111100 1111000101 100011 1111010111 1111111111 011101010100 1101011111 0101111011 110100 1110010101 101101 01001010010 001101 1101010101 1101101 1001100100 01110111011 1011010011 1111110101 101101 11001111101 0101011111 1111011111 1101000101 0111001111 0101111101 11000011100 010100 0101111100 1010010101101 11111011110 10011111101 10011111010 101010111 1101011101 0101010101 1111011001 110101110101 1011111101 111100 0111011111 1111100101 1101110001 1101110001 1111 001101 0101100001 1011010101 11011100 10111100101110 11010 1011111111 1111110011 101101 1101110100 10010111110 0101010111 1011110111 1001110001 11111100011 110101 01110100101 11110111010 101111101 0011011111 11111101110 10110111010 1001010011 0101 010101010010 101110001001 1100100001 01111101 01011100101 100101 1111100111 0111010101 1111100101 0101011111 1101010111 01011111010 1101111111 0101001101 1111110111 10001010111 11001111101 1111111101 1111010101 1111110101 1101110101 1111010011 1011101 111111001100 1111110101 0111010100 100101 011100101010 010101 1101001 1011111111 1011100101 01010010101 1100111101 1011110101 1011001101 110101 100111 1011011001 10010010101 1011010101 110000100110 01001 0111110101 0111 0111110101 110001 11001001101 11111001100 0111011111 111111 1111000111 1001110111 1111110101 11110001001 1111111101 1101110101 101110101 1111011111 1111010111 1011111001100
  • Amount of stanzas: 29
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 607
  • Average number of words per stanza: 108
  • Amount of lines: 429
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; to, with, who, one, and, i, thy, thou, all, doth, that, my, god, thee, she, not, me, no are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, i, for, all, the, oh, thou are repeated.

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

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