This is an analysis of Holy-Cross Day by Robert Browning.
ON WHICH THE JEWS WERE FORCED TO
ATTEND AN ANNUAL CHRISTIAN SERMON…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abc dbbaefgfhXXcgijkjeXdkX jf d iillcc X aammnn X dXoomm X ppeeXb d XXXXff d bXqXff X iibbee X ffaamX X ddffff e mmgggg d iicchh X ggrrff X ffccoo X eeccXX X ssggff X ccttbb X eebbgg X aaggdq X rreess X aagggXXgd
- Stanza lengths: 3,22,2,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,9,
- Metre: 1101010 0111001010 01 111011011 1111110110 001101011101 10010001110 10111000100 101011011 11010010011010 1100010101 0011010101 0011000100110 1100101011000 11111010 011101001011 110111001001 00100110100 1100111000 1010111110 001111101010 001000101010000 0111101 10101001010010 1010101 1011011110 10011100001 1 1111011 1001101001 10110111 1011001011 101110111 110101101 1 11100111 111001001 11100110 010010101 1101011001 1101111101 1 100100111 100101001 100101001 100101001 11101011 111010111 1 11101101 11001011001 101101001001 0111011101 110011101 011110111 1 10011101 11101101001 1101001011 10100101100 111101001 110101111 1 1011011110 1100111110 1110101010 1101010011100 111111001 1101101111 1 111110011 1100111001 110010111 11110100100 1011100101 11101100101 1 1100100101 110110111 1110100111 10111111 1101100101 11101101000 1 110101111 0010011101 00110101111 0110101001 110011111 0100100101 1 0110101011 111100111 0100110101 1101111011 10101101001 11101111011 1 111011111 1011101101 110100101 111011101 11101001011 010110101 1 1111100111 11111001 110110111 100111001 111110111 011101111 1 0101101101 10100101101 110100100 010110100 010110111 1010110101 1 101000101 110110011 0010011101 10110111 10101001110 0010101101 1 111110101 11010111 101011111 111010111 1010100111 1101111101 1 1011111111 10111001001 101100111 011101101 111100111 1110111101 1 11011111 1010101101 110011111 1100101111 111111111 101101101101 1 101110101 111011001 1111110111 011110111 10100010101 111011100 1 1010010101 1010010100 1010110101 1010110101 101010101 1010010101 1 111111101 111100101 111101101 111000111 0100111111 111100101 1100101001 10001011
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 44
- Lines: 169
Repeated words/phrases
what, and, in, you, to, we, by
Anaphora
you, by