This is an analysis of the poem The Legend Of St. Laura that begins with:
Saint Laura, in her sleep of death,
Preserves beneath the tomb... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXa CCCCC dceec fcffc fffff dXffb cecce ccggc ffXef CCCCC gfccf fcccc ecXhX afbbf fheeh cheeh ggffg ebhhb Xiffi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000101 010101 11110110 01000000 010101 11010110 110101 110111011 11011101 110101 01010100 010101 01010101 110000101 110101 01010111 010101 110101001 111101011 010001 01011001 010111 11010101 01010101 110101 01010101 011111 11010101 01010101 111101 01001101 0101001 01010101 11010101 010001 11010101 110101 11010101 01011111 1101001 11010111 010011 10011001 01110101 110101 11010110 110101 110111011 11011101 110101 11010111 1101101 100110001 010111001 010111 11011101 010101 010111010 111001010 110101 10110111 11001011 10011010100 11010111 101111000 010101001 110111 11010101 11111101 010101 110010111 010101 10110111 11010101 111001 01010111 011111 10110101 101010001 110101 11010111 011001 11010111 11010000111 1101010 11010101 010101 10110001 01000101 010101 11111101 100101 01000111 01010101 010001
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 95
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; her is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words so, the, they are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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