This is an analysis of the poem Almer Mater that begins with:
Know you her secret none can utter?
Hers of the Book, the tripled Crown?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababab cbcXcXadadadbcbcbc efefefag agag hdhdhX abababaiXaiai
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,18,8,4,6,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101110 00010101 110101010 11011101 1101010110 100111 100111010 10110101 110100110 11101110 111001010 100110 111101010 10011111 100111010 11110101 111101010 100111 111101111 100111001 1001101111 10100011 101101011 101101 111101110 11111101 1001011110 1000111001 101111110 101101 111001110 100101011 100111110 100110101 111101110 100101 101111011 11110111 101111011 110100101 111101010 100100 110101010 11011101 110101110 10011101 110101010 101111 101111010 100101011 101111010 10110101 1001001110 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 278
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; faces, and, we, you, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words still, faces, one are repeated.
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