This is an analysis of the poem Maud: A Monodrama (Part Ii, Excerpt) that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: a b X X c d X d c X e e a e f X g d e d f X d c d h d h c X I d d d I i j d i j i j X k k e e k k l k k l k X b i b i b X a m k a
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111100 101111 01010111 11110 1111010 00101010 1011111 111001010 10101010 110111 0111011 111101 11100100 1111001 011111111 11111 0111110 010111 00111011 111101 1010101 1010001 1011101 10111010 0010101 001001110 1010101 10100010 00101010 0010110 1010111 1010101 10101011 0010101 1010111 1011111 10100011 1011101 0010111 10100011 10100101 10101111 0010111 11101101 1100101 11100101 111101001001 10111011 10101001 10101010 1111101 00100101 01100110 1010011 1010101 1111101 1110001 1110101 1110101 1010101 1010110 1110111 1010101 0110101 0110111 1010101 10101010 10100010 110101 01010101 11110111 011101 1111011 1101110 0110111 111101 11001010 1010100 00101010 0011001 10101001 0010111 0010101 1110101 1110111 101100010 10101011 00100110 1011111 1011111 101110 1110111 1010111 101111 111101 0011101 1011111 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 99
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 31
  • Average number of words per stanza: 6
  • Amount of lines: 282
  • Average number of symbols per line: 12 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 3
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, weep are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words , it, half, for, the, my, pass, or, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

    The poet repeated the same word at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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

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  • summary of Maud: A Monodrama (Part Ii, Excerpt);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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