This is an analysis of the poem The Cambridge Churchyard that begins with:
Our ancient church! its lowly tower,
Beneath the loftier spire,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaacdcd ededbfbf fXfdghgh hbhbdidi dfdfjcjc fdfdkaka hlhlmcmc ibibigig didiicic hfhfhjhj dfdfcici igigfifi bdbdckckXkfkfmdmd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101010 0101001 010101110 1011010 01010101 1101001 11000101 110101 11001111 110101 11011101 011101 11111111 1101001 110111001 110101 01010101 110111 11010111 110101 01010101 110101 01011101 110101 11000101 100101 01011101 1010101 010010101 010111 11010101 110101 010011111 110101 01010111 110110 11010111 011101 11010111 110101 11010111 111111 11011101 0101001 11011101 0111010 110100101 1100110 010010101 010101 011100001 0101101 11011101 111111 11001101 111101 11010111 01001001 01010101 010101 011100101 1100101 11010101 100101 11011101 010101 11010101 110101 110100001 111101 11011101 110101 11010101 110101 01110101 111101 01010111 111111 11110101 110101 11011111 010111 11010101 110101 01010111 111101 11010101 010101 11001101 111101 01000101 100101 110101001 010101 10010111 110111 10110001 1101001 01011111 0111001 11111101 110111 11011101 111101 11011101 1111010 11011101 11010110 111111001 010101 11011101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 112
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; s is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, no are repeated.
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- summary of The Cambridge Churchyard;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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