This is an analysis of the poem The Legend Of Lady Gertrude that begins with:

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Fallen the lofty halls, where vassal crowds... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababba Xbbbbb XcdcXd Xefeef afffff ad bddb Xghggh XXiffi Xjdjjd ejfjjf afkffa Xfffff Xlilli Xmdmmd Xfbffb Xeneen Xbjbbj Xfjffj Xaiaai Xfoffo Xgbggb Xmemme Xdmddm XXejXe Xgjggf Xefeef Xjjjjj Xlfllf Xlg llg Xfgffg XXjaaj Xjajja XXbXfb Xjfjjf Xfiffi Xejeej X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,2,4,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,3,3,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 1001011101 10010100011 0101111111 0111010001 0101010101 1 10010101010 1001010111 01010011010 010011111010 1101011101 1 1111000101 1011011111 1101110111 1001010101 0101110101 1 1101001101 0100010101 1101000101 1101010111 01010010001 1 1011110101 11010001001 1101001101 0111010101 0101011101 1 1101011111 0111011101 0111110101 1011110101 1001010100 1 1011010001 10010101101 1001001101 1101110111 0101000101 1 01011111100 0111010101 0101000101 0101001111 0101011101 1 0111010101 10001010101 0101011101 1101010001 0111011101 1 1101010101 01001010101 1101011101 1111010011 01110100001 1 1011110001 1111000100 1111111111 1111110101 0111111001 1 1101111101 1011011101 1101000101 0111011101 1001010101 1 1001111111 1101110101 11011100101 11011111001 0101010111 1 10101110101 1101101111 01010100011 0101000111 0111010101 1 1101010101 01001111101 0101010001 1101011101 0110010100 1 1101000111 1101010101 01001011101 1111011101 1101000111 1 111010101 0101010101 1101010001 0001111101 1111110011 1 0111101101 0111100101 1111010101 1011110101 1001010101 1 1101010101 1001010111 11010111001 1111011101 11101110101 1 1100111101 1111110001 1101011101 1001010111 0111010011 1 1001010101 1101010101 1001010101 10001110101 1111010101 1 11101011111 10110010001 11001011001 11111100011 1101001101 1 1101110101 11110010101 110010100101 1111010101 01110101001 1 0101010111 0111011101 1101010101 1111010111 1101011101 1 01010011110 0101010101 01110011001 0101011101 01110010101 1 11001111101 11001010111 1111110101 11011111001 110100101 1 0101011101 1101000101 1101001111 01110100111 1110110100 1 01010011001 10011101001 0011010101 01011101001 1011010101 1 1001011111 1001010101 1111111111 11101011111 11110111111 1 11010111001 01010010111 1101001001 1011011111 1101010101 1 1011010100 11010001001 1111001111 1101001111 1101010111 1 1101010101 0111110001 11010101001 11110100101 1001110101 1 010101001100 0111011101 01110001110 1101111101 1111110101 1 1001010011 1111011101 0101010111 0101010101 1100010001 1 0111000101 11011001001 0011011101 1101000111 11010011111 1 0101100101 1001110111 11001011001 0101011101 0101011111 1 1101100101 1101010101 0101011101 0101011101 10010010001 1 1101001101 1111110101 1011110101 1101110101 0111010001 1 1111000101 1101011101 01110100101 1011010101 1011110101 1 0101000101 1101100101 1001011111 1101010101 1111110101 1 0101010101 0111010101 1101010101 1001100101 01110001001 1 0101010111 0111010111 0101010111 0101010111 1101010001 1 0101010001 1011110101 1111001111 1111110101 0101010101 1 0111011101 1111011101 0101010101 0101010100 1101110101 1 1111110111 0111100101 0101100101 1111010101 1101010101 1 1100010101 0101010111 1101011101 01110010101 0111100111 1 1101011101 0101000101 011010111 1011110101 1110011101 1 11110101101 1101110101 1101011101 1001010101 0101111101 1 11001000101 1101010101 1111010001 1101011111 010101101 1 1001110101 0110010100 1111010101 00110100001 1111010101 1 1101010101 10001100101 1100100011 11010011111 1001010111 1 01010100101 11110011001 0101110101 11011111001 0111010111 1 10110110101 0011110100 0111110101 1101011111 1101010101 1 1111011110 1111110101 1101011101 1101011101 1110111101 1 110101001010 0111111001 010100111110 11010101010 0011010111 1 1111111101 1001010111 1111111101 1101010111 0101110101 1 0101010111 0111010101 0110101111 1101100101 0101010101 1 1101110111 01001010101 1101111101 0101011101 0111110111 1 1111010011 1111110101 0101011101 0101101101 1101110001 1 1111010101 1011000101 11001110001 0101011111 0011010101 111 1110010101 11111 011101010 11011100101 1111000101 1 1111010101 1011110111 11001110001 0101110101 0101110101 1 1101010101 0100011101 1101001101 1100011111 0101001111 1 1101110101 1101011101 0101110101 1011010101 1101111101 1 1101011101 1001011110 0101010101 0101100101 01001110101 1 11110011101 01010101001 0101110101 01010000101 1111010101 1 1111110001 1101100101 1011010101 11001110101 0111110001 1 11001011101 1101110111 1101111101 1011011101 01101001011 1 1101010101 110010001 0101101101 1101011101 0101011100 1 1101010111 1001010111 0101010101 01011100111 0101100101 1 1101010101 1111010111 0101010111 1001010001 1101010101 1 0111010111 0101110111 01110100101 1101010101 1011010101 1 0101010101 0111011111 1101010101 1111110101 1101011111 1 1101010101 01110011101 1011100111 1101110101 0101111101 1 1111110110 1111010101 1101110101 0101111101 0100010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 79
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 454
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; and, his, her, where, as, on, morrow, of, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, her, through, and, a, slowly, with, , now are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.

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