This is an analysis of the poem A Chaunt In Praise that begins with:
How many hymns have I chaunted, Lady, in laud of thee,
Each with a sigh for its burthen, tear for its antiphon?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XcXa acba XXXd dece aXbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011110100101 10011010110101 11110010110101 10110010100100 10111110100100 10110010100100 11110011100100 10110010110101 10111011100101 10010011100100 10110010110101 11010110111111 11011010111101 10010010111111 11010011111100 100100110101100 10011010101100 100110110111101 11110111101100 10111110111100 10010110111111 100110111011000 11011010111110 10110010100100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (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; in, with, of, to, and are repeated.
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