This is an analysis of the poem The Lost Pyx: A Mediaeval Legend that begins with:
Some say the spot is banned; that the pillar Cross-and-Hand
Attests to a deed of hell; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbb cded bfcX cXfX agag bfbf bhbh iaXa Xcjc aXcX agag Xfff aeae klkl jfjX cbcb ahah cjcjXibjb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101011010111 1000101 10110100101 110111 1101011011101 1101110 00101111111 101111010 11001101011 1110101 101001001101 110110010 101001001001 1110111 111011111001 11111110 110100111 10111001 1111110101 1101011 00110110111 1110101 1111100111 111011 111010101 110111 001010101 1010111 1110110101 101001001 1111011110 10110111 11111001010 10100101 11110111 101100 1010011101 1010111 001110101 101001100 1100100101 1101111 11001011111 1100101 1110101111 1100111 10100100111 1100101 1100100101 110111 1101110101 1011101 10101101001 1100101 10010111 1100101 11011101 110001 110010101 110100 0100111011 110111 01110101 110101 101111001 110101 11101001 110101 110100101 110101 1101101101 101111 11110111 110101 11010111 111100
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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