This is an analysis of the poem Louvain To Dom Bruno Destrée, O.S.B. that begins with:

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It was the very heart of Peace that thrilled... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbbb acaX cbcb bb Xcdcd bebe fefeXdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,2,5,4,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1 0101010111 0011011101 1101110101 0100011101 1101010101 10011010101 1011000101 0101011101 1111010100 0100010111 1110110101 1001110101 1011011011 0101010111 1 1011110101 11110100101 1011010011 1000010101 0100110101 1110001101 010010011101 11111000101 01011101011 01001110111 11001000001 1100110101 1000010111 1101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; of, and are repeated.

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