This is an analysis of the poem Saints that begins with:
The Saints of Thy great Church, 0 Christ,
How vast their numbers be--...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcX dedece XfXfdf cadaXaXfcfcec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011111 111100 11011101 11111 10010101 110100 11011101 111111 10010001 101111 10111101 100101 110110000 1000001 11010101 111101 11111101 111111 11011111 110101 10111101 101111 110101111 010101 10010111 100101 101101110 101101 10011011 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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, of, men are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words saints, men are repeated.
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- summary of Saints;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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