This is an analysis of the poem The Ruined Chapel that begins with:
By the shore, a plot of ground
Clips a ruined chapel round,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaba cccbc dddbd eeebeXaaaba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1010101 1000101 11111111 11110101 1000101 10001001 1000101 1111111 0010101 11111101 01111101 11010101 11111111 1010011 01010101 0010101 1010111 11111111 11111101 11100101 1011101 11000111 11111111 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 25
- 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, and are repeated.
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