This is an analysis of the poem Robert Buchanan that begins with:
’T WAS the body of Judas Iscariot
Lay in the Field of Blood; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abAb acdc AeAe aada Afbf gfhf gXia Acac biXi afcf Xbdb jbXb jgfg Xgjg gbfb akak iaaa jbfb fhlh Ablb Ffaf Fmbm Aifi abDb DaAa achc Ahfh Fbfb Agag mndn dafa imaM aMAm fege Xebe Gmfm aXab Gmam Abeb Eala Xclc Aede faaa Emdm mbdb AaXa eaAa ffcfXaeae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110100100100 100101 11010100100 010101 110111 11101 1100101 101111 110100100100 101111 11010100100 110001 01001111 101101 1111011 011111 1010100100 010101 101010101 111111 101010101 110101 11011101 010001 010011111 111111 11111101 011101 11010100100 111111 10100100100 110001 11110001 011111 1010010101 100111 1010100100 100101 0101010101 101101 1111111 101011 10111101 010001 01111110 010101 11010101 1011111 01111110 010101 11110100 010111 11010101 101101 101111110 1010101 01010101 1011101 11001101 110101 11010101 011100 1010011 0010101 11010101 011111 1010100100 101101 01111110 010101 10110101 011111 11110100 110101 110100110 010101 11010100100 100101 1010100110 110101 11111101 011101 101111101 1011101 11111101 110101 101111101 1011101 11010100100 100101 01011101 0100101 11011101 111101 11100111 110111 11100111 110101 1010100100 100111 01110101 111110 111110111 101111 11010100100 100101 1011110111 011001 11111101 111101 101111111 1011101 11010100100 11111 11011101 010101 1011101 1010111 1010010101 100101 101000101 1010101 101100101 110101 01100101 010111 10100100100 110101 0100100100 110101 11010100100 110011 0111111 111101 11110101 100111 11011110100 1011111 11010111 110111 111100101 110111 00011111 0011001 01100101 110100 11011101 01111 111100101 110111 10010100100 10011 11010100100 010111 11011101 001001 011100101 111101 11010110 111111 011100111 1011101 111110110 0110111 11010100100 111111 111010111 101111 1101011101 1110111 1010100100 010001 011100101 1111111 101111101 011101 1010010101 010101 110110101 111 110100100100 100111 1010011101 010101 11011110101 110101 11010100100 1011101 010100101 1010101 11110111 011101 01010111 011111 01001001001 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 49
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 196
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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, black, and, he, alone, d, wander are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, alone are repeated.
The author used the same words the, and, for, t at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines hill, snow are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase alone connects the lines.
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