This is an analysis of the poem The Church-Builder that begins with:
The church flings forth a battled shade
Over the moon-blanched sward: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabba cdcXXad XeXeffe caXaXfa agagccX hfhXfff iaiaiia fgfgccg ehehcch cjcjkkj leleeee cdcXjjX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101 1001101 011110011 110111 1011 0101 010101 11010100 0100100 11010111 100111 1100 1101 011100 110100100 010101 01011100 110111 1111 1101 010101 11110101 1101001 11001110 011100 11100 1101 011111 110110001 11000111 101110001 110101 1001 1101 1101010 110101111 0100101 11111101 110111 1101 1101 010101 10011101 11111 01010111 111111 0111 1111 111111 11011101 011111 110011101 100101 1111 1111 111111 11010010 110101 10111101 110101 0011 1101 011101 01110101 110111 11011101 010101 1001 1101 110111 11110101 111111 11010001 101101 1101 0111 110101 11111111 1000100 01110101 1011000 11011 10111 0101010
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, my, the are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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- summary of The Church-Builder;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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