This is an analysis of the poem A Wedding March that begins with:

Clash your cymbals, maids, to--day.
Chaunt the praise of Cynthia.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaaccdXeeffaX dddfaXddgghhiihXab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,18,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110101 1010100 10101001 1110100 1011101 1001101 1110111 1001100 10000110 00100010 1010101 1001101 1111111 101110 1110111 10000101 1011100 0010011 1110000 1000100 1010111 1011001 1110101 1011011 11111010 101101010 1010011 1011111 1011111 0111100 1001101 1011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 505
  • Average number of words per stanza: 92
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • 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; of, her, to are repeated.

    The author used the same word clash at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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