Analysis of All-Saints
Edmund Hodgson Yates 1831 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (London)
In a church which is furnish'd with mullion and gable,
With altar and reredos, with gargoyle and groin,
The penitents' dresses are sealskin and sable,
The odour of sanctity's eau-de-Cologne.
But only could Lucifer, flying from Hades,
Gaze down on this crowd with its panniers and paints,
He would say, as he look'd at the lords and the ladies,
"Oh, where is All-Sinners', if this is All-Saints'?"
| Scheme | AXAX BCBC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 001111011010 110011101 011011010 01111101 110110010110 1111111101 1111111010010 11111011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 392 |
| Words | 69 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 153 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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