This is an analysis of the poem The Lady Of Shalott (1842) that begins with:
PART I
On either side the river lie... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaabcccX ddddbeeXX ffXfbfffX ggXgbgggX aaaabagaX hhhhbXXeX ffffbcccX iiiibfffX eeeebXffX aaggBjjjX ddddBbbbX fXffBdddb kkkkbfffX jjjjbbbbX iiXibaaaX bbbbbjjjX ggggbfffX ggaabkkkX hhhhbiiiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 11010101 11010101 11011101 11010111 01010101 11110101 1010101 1110101 010010 11101010 10101110 10111110 10100010 1010101 11111110 10101010 10101100 010010 1010111 1010101 11101100 01010101 1010101 11110101 110100101 10110101 010010 10101010 00101010 10111010 00101010 1010101 110101010 10101010 1001011010 10010001 1111111 01010101 1110101 01010011 0110101 11110110 11110100 11010111 010010 11010101 11010101 1100101 1110111 1010101 1010101 11010101 10110101 110010 01010101 110111001 01010101 11110101 11010101 10110101 01110111 11110111 010010 10011101 01010101 11010101 01000111 11010101 11011101 11110101 1011101001 01001001 01100101 11010101 011100101 11010101 011101 011111010 0010001 11010101 010110 01010101 10110111 10010100 01011100 11110101 100100101 01010101 11110101 010110 100110010 1100101010 010101010 111101010 11110101 11010101 01010101 110100101 110110 01110111 11010111 01010101 01111111 11110101 00110010 110001010 1001001010 11101 11011101 11110101 11010101 11010101 1110101 11011101 01010101 110101101 01001001 00101110 01101010 011001010 10001110 1010101 1111101 01011101 11010111 010010 11010101 1111001 1010110 0010100 0110101 11010001 11011111 01110101 010010 1010101 11010111 01010101 1010001 11010101 11011101 010011101 11010011 010010 10101010 10101010 10111010 10101010 1010101 11110101 01110101 1000111 010010 10101100 11011100 01011101 11010101 1000101 1010111 1110111 11011101 010010 1001101 10010101 1010101 1110111 1011101 110110101 11110101 10010101 0100100
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 313
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 180
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, she, his, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, and, as, she, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word shalott at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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