This is an analysis of the poem The Gray Brother that begins with:
The Pope he was saying the high, high mass,
All on Saint Peter's day,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb adad eeXe fdfd dbdb dede gfaX Xbdb Xhfh hbhb didi jcjc kbkb ldld jcmc nbnb dbdX ncnX bobo Xplp ndgd lele ldld gbab pcpc pXgb jbcX cbmX ibcX pbcX XbkcfbXdbdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0111100111 111101 00100110101010 011101 011110011 10101001 101110101 1110101 11010101 111111 1110111001 010101 101001110011 110001 11110101 110001 11010101 011101 11110011 110111 1101111 010111 01110101 011101 11010101 110001 11110111 1101010 010101010 010101 110000101 111111 11011111 111111 11011101 011111 01010001 111101 11010101 111101 01100101 010111 01011011 110101 01010101 1101101 11111111 100101 11010101 110101 11110101 111111 11010101 010111 110110101 010111 11011101 1101111 1010111001 0100001 10110111 110101 11011101 110111 01111101 110101 01000101 110100 111100101 110101 10110101 110100 110010101 010111 11010101 0100101 01011111 1101010 110001111001 101110010 01010101 111001 011100111 110101 101010101 100101 11000101 110101 01010111 110101 11010111 10101101 11011111 110101 011101101 1010101 11101110010 0100101 1110100110 101101 1111010110 11011001 1010101101 1100111 1110111101 1110001001 111001011001 1110100 111001011001 1110001001 11101011001 11100101 11010111 111101 1111101101 101111 11111110 111101 11011100101110 11100101 111100101 1101001 110010111 1 1 1111 010101101 110101 11011111 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 32
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 130
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; and, he, from, or, ye, come, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, or are repeated.
The author used the same words the, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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