This is an analysis of the poem Hymn For The Two Hundredth Anniversary Of King’s Chapel that begins with:
SUNG BY THE CONGREGATION TO THE TUNE OF
TALLIS'S EVENING HYMN... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab bcbc adad efef dcdc cgcgXcfcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010100010 10101 1000010111 11011101 01010101 11110101 1100101011 01000111 011001001 01010101 11110101 01011101 01111111 01111101 010001101 10110101 11010101 11010101 11110101 010100101 011101001 10110101 01110111 110101001 11010101 01011101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 26
- 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; by, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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