This is an analysis of the poem Paschal that begins with:
Easter was the old North
Goddess of the dawn. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcc bcXd edfe gdeh Xchf Xgfg daXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011 10001 11010001 110001101 1010001 0110101 010001010 00100010 01001010 11010111 111100010 11010 11101001000 1101011 00101100 11110101 100101010010 100011 1010100010 1010100010 100100 1110111 011001010 00101011 100100010 101001001 1010110 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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