This is an analysis of the poem The Weird Lady that begins with:
The swevens came up round Harold the Earl,
Like motes in the sunnes beam;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcX dceeX fXfcXX Xcffc aXffX XaggX eceeb gcffX Xedde X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,6,5,5,5,5,5,5,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101111001 1100101 110110110 001101001 111111 1101001110 111001 011101101 1011101111 111111 101011010 110011010010 010101 1100111001 110010011 010101 11011101 110111 11011111 111101101 011101 110100101 0111010 11100101 010101001 1101001 110100101 1110111 110101101 111101011 011111 011100101 111111 1110100101 1110100101 010110 11010101 110111 101011010 1101010010 10101111 011100101 110101 1110101011 1011100101 1100101 101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to, he, his, by, sign are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word oh is repeated.
The author used the same word earl at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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