This is an analysis of the poem Friar’s Song that begins with:
Some love the matin-chimes, which tell
The hour of prayer to sinner:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdce XdXdfdfe XgXghXhb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 01001010 11010111 11010010 11110101 1111010 11011101 1111111 11001111 1011110 01010101 1111010 11011111 1101010 10010111 0101011 100111001 1101010 11110101 1101010 01111101 1101010 11110101 1111110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; i, her, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, i, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ave at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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