This is an analysis of the poem Ante Aram that begins with:
Before thy shrine I kneel, an unknown worshipper,
Chanting strange hymns to thee and sorrowful litanies,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xab aXa cac Xca XXb aXaXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011111101100 1011011100100 010101111101 110111011111 101101010111 1101110001100 110111000100 100101010101 110111010110 01101011100 110111110100 010100010101 110100011011 0100111011100 001101010101 110101010100 110111010100 11111011010 101101011110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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