This is an analysis of the poem Jerusalem Delivered - Book 02 - Part 05 that begins with:

XLVI
"Sir King," quoth she, "my name Clorinda hight,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabababcX Xadadadee XXXfXfXcc Xgggggghh ciXiadaXa jXklklkiX XmamXmajX Xmfmfmfaa eibibibmm Xnononoaa XdjdjXjaa Xlilipigg Xmpmpmpgg Xamamammm Xmmmmmmmm jababaXdd Xdmdmdmdd Xmamamamm Xmememecc Xmamamamm
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 1010111010101 1101111111 11011101011 1001010111 1110011111 1111001111 0101100101 11111101110 1 01011011101 01011101001 11001011001 1111010111 1111111101 111101111 1011111111 1011001101 1 10101111111 1101111101 1111010100 1111010001 0110011101 01110011010 0101010101 1111110101 1 10101111101 0101110101 11110010101 1101101001 1101010001 0101111001 1101110111 1101110111 1 10111011100 1101001110 1001111101 11001110101 11001000110 0101010101 1110010100 1100010101 1 10111010110 1101110001 0101011101 1101001111 1100011101 0100010101 1111010111 11011101010 1 0101011011 11010110101 11010100101 0101100101 10101001110101 0111011101 1101111000 10111011010 1 10111000101 100100101 11001111001 1111011101 1111111101 0101010101 0011110110 1101110011 1 01110111010 0111010101 1111101010 1100011101 10010011010 111110101 1101010101 1111110101 1 0101010101 1111010101 1101010101 1011111001 0101101111 111010101 101000101 1101011101 1 100010111 011100101 0111010111 11011110001 1101010110 1100111111 110101101 1111110101 1 1101011101 1101001101 1101001001 1101100101 1101111100 1011110011 0101010011 010010111001 1 0110010101 01010110010 1101010101 11010101010 0101011111 01000111010 10011011001 1001011111 1 100101101 0101110101 110110101 1111010101 1101110101 1101011101 1001100101 1101010101 1 1110011101 1111010101 0101011101 1100111101 1101010101 1011011101 01010011001 1111010101 111 1001011101 1101110111 11001010111 1111010111 0101101101 1011001111 1111110101 1101100101 1 10101010111 11011001001 1101010111 1111011111 1001110101 0111010101 100100111 1111010100 1 10101011101 0101100101 1111010101 0111011101 1101010101 0101111011 1101110101 0101010101 1 100110110001 0101000101 0101010001 1101010101 1111011101 11110110101 1101010101 1101110011 1 101001110010 0101011111 0111111010 1001010101 11011100010 0111110101 1101111101 1011110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 362
  • Average number of words per stanza: 65
  • Amount of lines: 180
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; my, to, and, this, i, of, with, how, their, his, that are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word some is repeated.

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  • summary of Jerusalem Delivered - Book 02 - Part 05;
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  • history of its creation;
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