This is an analysis of the poem Our Lady Of The Sackcloth that begins with:
There was a Priest at Philae,
Tongue-tied, feeble, and old;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba acbc dcec FbGb ehih hfff jkjk FbGb eXdj acXc jlXl fmdm jaba fada Xcac Xlgl Xblb maia icXc flgl ehXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111 111011 101010010 1101011 01001010 101101 101001110 110111 10101011 10100011 11110010 1111101 100110100 101101011 110010010 101101 10111010 100111 1011110 111101 10010010 0111011 1111110100 1011101 101011110 1010111 01010010 111111 100110100 10110111 110010010 1011001 10111010 100110 01110011 1111011 10011110 0111001 01001010 100111 11001010 1101111 01011010 11000101 111110010 1111001 101010011 101101 01011010 10101011 1001110 111001 11011010 0101101 11111110 1010111 11001110 101001001 10101010 11110101 110010010 100101 110010010 1111101 1001011 011101 1110010010 0100101 1111010 100001 101110010 10101001 1110010 111001 1111110 110101 10111110100 11110101 1011111010 1111111 1010010 101101 101011010 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 84
- 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; and, she, from, far, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, nay are repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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