This is an analysis of the poem St. Swithin's Chair that begins with:
On Hallow-Mass Eve, ere yon boune ye to rest,
Ever beware that your couch be bless'd;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb bbbb ccdd bbaa ccee ffgg hhiiXggii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11011111101 100111101 100111001 10111101 11101101101 11011101101 100111011 1011111001 0101101101 010011101 011110111 101001101001 110010101 1010110111 1110111101 1100110101 111111101 101110101 10111101 1111111 01010011001 111001011 1111001101 110100111 1101110111 00010111 1011011011 0100101101 0100111011 1010101101 0111101101 1011110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, of, he, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, when are repeated.
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- summary of St. Swithin's Chair;
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