This is an analysis of the poem The Boy Out Of Church that begins with:
As Jesus and his followers
Upon a Sabbath morn...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb cdXd ebfX fgeg XdadXcbfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010100 010101 0101011 110101 110110 110101 11010100 010101 1101110 10011 1111010 110111 1111010 010101 0101010 100101 11111111 10101 0101110 111101 0101010 110101 0111110 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, the 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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