This is an analysis of the poem At The Saturday Club that begins with:

THIS is our place of meeting; opposite
That towered and pillared building: look at it;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddaaeebbbbeeaaffeegghheedd aaiiaajjaa jjiiiihh aakkllbbdd ffaahhiikkiXaaeehhii bhcciiaaXhccmmiiddeebi iiaaaaccddccffff aaccnnoocciiaaaaiiaappiiccqqgchhhXeeiiddXddiiii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,10,8,10,20,22,16,47,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0011010100 11011010110 1100010101 0101010101 1101010111 0101010101 1101010111 1101110101 1111011101 11010100111 10111100101 0101110101 11010100111 01110001101 1011010101 1101110111 1111111101 0101110101 0101010111 0101110101 0101110101 0101010101 0001100111 10110000101 1111010111 1101010101 110101001010 11010011010 1111010011 1101000101 11010011101 0101010101 1001110101 0111010101 0111010111 0111110101 0101010101 1011010101 11011100101 0101010101 1001010111 1101010011 0111010111 0101010111 1001010111 00101111001 1111110101 1001111111 111011111 1111010101 1101011111 1111110101 1101011111 0100110111 1111011101 1011111111 1011011001 0101010101 0100110101 0100010111 11010001101 1001010100 11110100010 1111011101 1111111101 11110100101 1101011101 1101111001 11000111001 0101111101 110101001001 10010101001 1111000111 01011110000 1011111001 0101010001 0111010101 1011010111 01001110101 1101010001 1101010101 1111111111 1101010111 0011110101 0101011101 0111010101 01010110111 0111110101 1101010001 1111010101 1101011110 0101000111 1101010101 10001110101 1011010111 1111011101 0011010101 1001010101 1111010101 0101011101 10010101101 0111110101 1001010101 0101111010 1101110101 0101000111 1101011101 11010001001 1101010101 10010100101 10010010011 11010100101 1011011101 10011101001 1001110101 0101010101 0110010101 101100011 1001110101 1011010011 0011010001 1111010101 1011010111 11001011101 11010010101 1101100101 0111010101 0101010101 0101010101 1101011101 1111110111 0101011101 0101011111 1101010111 1101011111 0101110111 0101010101 1101010101 11110001001 0101010101 1001011101 1101000101 110110101 1001010001 11010100101 01000010001 0101110101 1101010101 01010001010 11110010111 0111011001 1101011111 0101010001 1001010110 01001011101 11001010101 1111010101 1001010101 1101100101 01011111100 1111010001 0101010111 1001011101 11001010011 11010011101 0101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 810
  • Average number of words per stanza: 144
  • Amount of lines: 166
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; chapel, life, no, of, my, his, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, such, of, his, than are repeated.

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