This is an analysis of the poem The Rape Of The Lock: Canto 1 that begins with:

Nolueram, Belinda, tuos violare capillos;
Sedjuvat, hoc precibus me tribuisse tuis.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaabbaaccddee ffggddhhddbbff iihhjjXXbbddkkffXliiddiiddaakkiimmffmmii hhaaaXggaabb nnddjjiiccbb ffbbccddhhkkcc mmiiddiijX llbXdd ddaXaaddiiccXnhhaXaannaaiijj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,14,40,12,12,14,10,6,28,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 100010110100 10011001101 101001 110100101001 11010101001 1101010101 0101011001 1000111101 0101110111 1111010101 01111010101 1111011101 1101010101 0111110101 1011011101 1111010101 11011110101 1111010101 1101011101 1101010101 1011010101 0101010101 01001010101 1111000101 01011101001 0111010101 1101010101 1001010101 1101011101 10001010101 0101010001 01011011101 0101110111 0101111111 0101010101 1101001101 0101110101 1101110101 1111010101 110101101 0101110101 1111010111 0111001101 11100010111 0101000101 110111011 11001110101 1111001101 1101110101 1111110001 11100010101 1101010101 0101000101 1111010101 1101001111 0101001101 11111110001 01010100101 110110101 1101011101 0111001101 010010010001 1111010001 1101010101 1101110101 0101110001 0101011101 01100010101 1111000101 1101010111 0111011101 1101010101 0111011111 1101000101 01011111000 1001010101 0111010001 11010111010 11010111010 1111011001 1100010101 1111110011 11110001001 1111010111 1101011101 1101010101 1111111101 1101110101 10111100111 1111010111 01010110001 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 0111010111 1101010101 1110000111 1101110101 0111110101 11001110101 0101001101 01001000101 1101010011 1101011111 1101110101 0101010011 1101010101 0111110101 01011100011 1111010101 0011001101 1101110101 1001010101 1101111111 1101110101 00010111001 01011101010 1111111111 11110010001 1101000111 1111010101 1111001101 1101010011 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 0101000101 0101000101 0111010111 101001010101 10001010101 10001011111 01001000101 01110101001 1101000101 01010010110 11010010101 0101110011 0101010101 1101011101 1101010101 1101011101 0111010001 0101010101 1111010001 1101010101 1101010001 0101011101 1101110101 1101110101 1101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 781
  • Average number of words per stanza: 128
  • Amount of lines: 154
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; her, to, of, and, what, when, their, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, of, when, and are repeated.

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