This is an analysis of the poem St. Francis Of Borgia By The Coffin Of Queen Isabel that begins with:

“Open the coffin and shroud until
I look on the dead again...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabacaba defedgfg hihicjhj XcfcXiXi ffffdibiXhijideee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100101101 1110101 111001001 1101101 110110111 111111 010100101 110101 010110101 0101101 111100101 1011101 0110111001 0010001 010100001 0010101 111010101 101101 010010001 011101 100111111 1101111 110111101 100101 111010101 0010111 110100111 110101 111111101 111101 1101011101 0011101 111100101 111101 101010111 0011101 111010101 11100111 001100101 0011110 111110101 1110101 001010101 110101 100010101 010101 11110101 101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; that is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, on are repeated.

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  • summary of St. Francis Of Borgia By The Coffin Of Queen Isabel;
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