This is an analysis of the poem The Missionary - Canto First that begins with:
Beneath aerial cliffs, and glittering snows,
The rush-roof of an aged warrior rose,... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddXeaaffeXaaaaggggXhccXaccccffbbeebbiijjjjbbbbeeggjjiikkcccbXbbllcceecccbbbbbbmmkkbbccbbeebbnnaabbeebbccooaacceellbbeemmccckkggnnhhbbccggeeffppbbeeeeaaaaggbbeebbggccaabbnnbbeebbaaiiggggkkmmeebbggllbbaabbmm o a g gg o bb g adaabbnnggmmhhbb q e eeeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 213,1,1,1,2,1,2,1,16,1,1,83,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01100111001 0110111001 1001011101 0101110001 1101011101 110101110010 0101010101 1101011101 1010010101 1001011101 0100110101 01011111001 01010101010 0100101010010 0110010101 0111110101 1101001111 1101011000 0100010101 1101110101 11010111001 100011010111 10001010101 1100110111 1011110101 0101010101 1110110101 1011000101 1101011101 0111010101 11010101100 0101010101 1101110101 1010110101 111111001 01010100001 1101011101 1011000101 1101011101 11010100101 0001011111 1111010101 1110110101 00110001001 0101010101 1111000101 1101110111 10001010101 1100011001 0101010101 1111111101 00110101001 11110001001 1100111101 0101110101 1111010101 1001011101 0101010111 01011101011 1101111101 1001010101 1101110101 11110110001 1101110111 0101110101 11111000101 110010101101 1101010101 1101011110 1111000011 1100010101 1111011101 0111000101 1101000101 11010100101 1101011001 1100010001 1101010101 11010000101 111101011100 0101100101 1101010101 11100010101 0111010101 1001101001 1001110111 1011010101 1101000101 11010010111 1101010101 01010100111 11110100101 1101010101 0101100101 0101011101 1111110001 0111110001 1100011101 1101010111 0101011101 1111011101 01001011101 1101010101 1100010111 1101010001 1111010111 1111010101 0100110101 1101010101 0101010001 1101010111 11010001101 01110001001 1101111111 1101011111 11010011101 0101111111 1101110101 1110110001 0110011101 0101110101 01110100101 0101110111 1101011101 1001110011 10010101001 11010111101 1101010101 1001010101 1101110101 10001000101 11001010101 1011110001 1001000101 1011000101 0011110101 1011110101 1001010111 1101011111 1101010111 1111011101 11011010101 1111010101 010101011 1101000101 1101111101 1101000111 10011010101 100101110111 01001110101 1101110001 1101011111 1001010101 1001100111 1101010101 1111011101 1111011101 0011000101 10011010111 1101010101 0101000101 11010111001 0101000111 1101010101 111000101 1111110001 1011010101 11111100101 0101010101 11000110111 1101010101 1011101101101 1111111101 1001010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1001011101 1101110101 1011010101 1101110111 1101110101 1101110101 1001110111 0101010001 1001110001 01001010101 0111010001 1111010101 1101011101 0011000101 100101011 1001011101 1101111001 0101010101 1101110101 01001010101 10110010101 10100010101 1111010111 1111100101 1101001101 1101011111 01010111001 01110010101 1001010111 110010010101 01010010101 0101010101 1100010111 10010100101 1011010101 1101110101 1 1101 100 010101 1101001001 1 1001010101 1011010111 100 1111011101 0101011101 0101101101 1101110101 1100010101 0101011101 1011010111 0101010101 1101001101 011101110101 11010111001 1001010101 10110010101 1101110101 1011000101 11011101001 100 1011010101 1101011001 1101111101 1011110111 01011000101 1101010001 11 111011001 1101110101 1101110111 1111110111 1111111001 11010010101 1101000101 01010011010 1111010001 01001111101 0111011101 1011000101 1111010101 0101010111 0101010111 0111010101 1101011101 1111110101 1101110111 110010001 1101010101 11000101010 0101010111 10111010111 1011011101 1111010001 10010011111 11111101111 1111110101 1001111111 1111111111 11010100011 0101010111 11001111001 1111010101 1111010101 1101001101 1101111101 11111101001 0101101101 01001010101 1101010101 1101110001 1001010101 0101000101 0111011001 0101101100 0101011101 01001010101 1001111001 11001010101 10110101001 1011010111 1011010111 11010101001 1101000101 1011011111 11010101111 1111010101 1100010101 1011110111 0111110101 1011110101 1101001111 01101110111 0101001101 01101010111 01001101001 1011011101 1011010011 01001011001 1110110111 1101011101 1100110101 10001000110 1011001111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1083
- Average number of words per stanza: 190
- Amount of lines: 322
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, in, his, her, they, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, or, when, and, a, where are repeated.
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