This is an analysis of the poem A Boy In Church that begins with:
“Gabble-gabble,… brethren,… gabble-gabble!”
My window frames forest and heather. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabacc ababdd aeaecc afafgg hihihh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011 110110110 110101010 110111010 010111110 111101010 110110110 01011011 111110110 011101001 01011011 01010111 010111010 10111101 011111010 11011111 11011001 111101001 1101110110 011010101 101001110010 01111101 011001010 0101010010 010111110 10110101 0101001010 11000101 101110110 0100111010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; gabble, or, s are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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