This is an analysis of the poem Sir Galahad, A Christmas Mystery that begins with:
It is the longest night in all the year,
Near on the day when the Lord Christ was born;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac dede fgfh ijik blbl imim cccc flel efee lili enen ioio ilil fnfn ijij ciXi lili ijXj akaj ihig bobo lili bibi blbl olol ijij jiki pcpc lili okoj jiji bqbq ieie bibi mama Xlil XkaX e c imim bibi lolo oo X ioi i ii f iii X lelq X e oc i i
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,2,1,3,1,2,1,3,1,4,1,1,2,1,1,2,1,4,1,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0001010101 1101101111 11001111111 1101010101 0101110101 1101011111 0111111101 0111011101 1011110101 1111000100 1111111101 1111110111 1101011101 0111111111 0101010011 1011001101 0111110101 1111010111 1111111111 1101111100 1101111101 0111110111 1001010101 1010011100 1101000101 11010010111 1001010101 0111010101 0101011111 0101001101 001010101101 0100111101 1101011100 1101100101 1100110111 1101000101 1101010001 10010011110 01110111001 01001111101 1101010111 11110100011 111010111 1101110001 1111110101 11101111111 11110101101 11010101011 11110111011 1011001101 1110000101 0111110011 01110110101 0111100101 11110011001 1101111011 1101001101 0111011101 0101110101 1101010001 1001010101 01010100101 0101110011 1101000101 0111011111 0011110101 1111010010 1111010011 1111110101 1011010111 1011011111 0101111111 1101010101 1100110101 111100101100 1101010011 0101100101 1101011100 0111010101 1111110111 1101000111 1101001101 110011100111 1011110111 1101010101 1111111011 1101111101 0101111111 1111010111 1111011101 10011100111 0111011011 1100010111 10111110101 0101110111 0111110111 10111111101 1000111111 11100111101 0111011101 1001101101 1111111111 1111110111 1111010111 1011111101 0101010111 1111010101 0111011101 10111011101 0111111101 1100111100 0101111101 101110011111 1100010101 1110110101 0111010111 1101001001 1111011101 1101101101 0111110101 10111011101 1111111100 1111011101 0111010001 10011010101 1101111111 1111111111 1111111111 10011111101 1111111100 1101010111 0111110101 10101110101 01011101111 1101010101 1111010101 1101110101 100101110 1101010101 1101110001 1101110101 0101011111 1101011111 1101010101 11011101000 1101111111 0101011101 1001000101 1011101010100 111101111010 11110100111 1101010100 10110010101101100101111011010001010010011 110 1100011101 1101010011 1011011101 100111101 1111010101 0100110011 10111110011 1010111101 1111011101 0111011111 0111001101 1001001111 1001110011 1100011 110101010 101 1111110111 100010111 1010101001 1111111011 1101110011 11010101 1111110111 1111110101 110111 110101010 1101 1111010100 11111100001 111100 101010110 101111 1101010001 11001011100 0110101011111101 101 1111010111 11111101001 101111001010 1111010111 0101010101 1111010111 1111010001 11 1111011101 1101010111 11001110111 1101110111 0101010111 1111000110 11010010111 1111000101 1111111100 1101110011 1101110111 11010110101 1101111111 01011101 0111001101 0111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 65
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 223
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, night, to, he, stood, i, you, for, him, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, with are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word galahad at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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