This is an analysis of the poem Inside Of King's College Chapel, Cambridge that begins with:

. Tax not the royal Saint with vain expense,
With ill-matched aims the Architect who planned--... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaaccadeeXdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1101010101 0111010111 01010010101 0111010001 11001010100 11111100101 0101010111 1101110101 1101011101 1111001101 1111011101 100110011101 1111010101 1101110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 658
  • Average number of words per stanza: 103
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

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