This is an analysis of the poem As You Came From The Holy Land that begins with:

As you came from the holy land
Of Walsingham,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXbcaXcdcdXXdXccXccXcXXefeaffffedebaXaXgag
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100101 0100 1110111 101111 1111111 111101 1100101 1111110 1010111 110101 101101101 001101 10101101 111101 1101101001 1011010 11111101 101101 101011001 111101 101111101 101111 1111101 1010110 1110111 111111 1110101 00101 11100101 101101 101101111 101101 00100010010 10101 101001001 101001 0100101001 101101 1011010010 110101 1110010010 0011010 101101101 0011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1307
  • Average number of words per stanza: 267
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; you, have, that, me, he, never are repeated.

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