This is an analysis of the poem A Hymn In Time Of Idols that begins with:
THOUGH they may crowd
Rite upon rite, and mystic song on song;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdee aeaeffffgg hchcdcdchh iaiadedejj acaXchdhdaa khkhfgfXhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,11,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 1011110111 101101 10110100111 1011 1101001101 110101 1011110101 11111101 11010101 1111 1111110111 011101 1101111101 110101 1101110101 101101 0011010101 110101001 01011100 1111 1111110101 01010101 1101010101 111101 10110001001 111101 0101010001 11010111 01000101 01001 0101110111 111101 1001000101 010111 1000111111 111111 1001110111 1100111 110100111 1011 11110100101 100111 111111 1111 110111 1101111101 110111 1110010111 11011101 00111111 1101 1101011101 110111 0101011101 110111 0100010101 010101 0101110100 11011101 01111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 346
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 61
- 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; or, its are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, its are repeated.
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