This is an analysis of the poem Holy Thursday (Innocence) that begins with:
Twas on a Holy Thursday their innocent faces clean
The children walking two & two in red & blue & green... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aacc ddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010111100101 01010111011111 11010101011111 10001101111101 110101111100101 100100110100111 01010111110101 100101111011001 110101110100101 1101001000101001 01010111100001 11010111110011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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More information about poems by William Blake
- Analysis of Hear The Voice
- Analysis of Silent, Silent Night
- Analysis of Introduction To The Songs Of Innocence
