This is an analysis of the poem On The Nativity Of Christ that begins with:
RORATE coeli desuper!
Hevins, distil your balmy schouris! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXA XXXXXaXA bXbcdacA XXXeeXeA fXfXXXaA XXXcXacA XXXcdadA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010100 100111010 110100111 1011010010 1111011100 010100001 1100010010 11011001 100010011000 10100011001 11110010000 11010011 1111101 01110111 11001110 11011001 100011101 11110100 11111110 11010110 11000101 111001001 11000110 11011001 11010110 11101110 11101010 11100101 10010111 01010110 11001011 11011001 01010001 10110011 010101001 11011111 11001101 01010101 110100101 11011001 101110101 101101000 01000101 11110110 11110100 11111101 11001110 11011001 1100100101 10011100 11011101 11011100 110001001 101111111 110101001 11011001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 353
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more 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; and, in, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word est at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase to connects the lines.
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