This is an analysis of the poem The Airy Christ that begins with:
After reading Dr Rieu’s translation of St Mark’s Gospel.
Who is this that comes in splendour, coming from the blazing East? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aa bb cc dd ee bb df ffXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010101001110 100110101000101 001111100010101 1001101001101110 1011101111010 101010111101 11111101111001 11001011100101 1111101100101 11101111111100 1010101111100 1110101010101 1011101010101 1100101110101 11010101000001 101110101110101 111110110111111101 111111111111101 01111101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; airy, this, in, aloofly, looks, he, sings are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.
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