This is an analysis of the poem Blessed Among Women --To The Signora Cairoli that begins with:
Blessed was she that bare,
Hidden in flesh most fair,... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccbdd eefeefcc bbdghdii jjekkell bbjlljmm iineenii ddbccbhh nnillXcc dXcnXcoo aahjjhee ddghXgbb hhgeehee iideedhh kkhhhXll Ximhhmnn nncllcXc iiellecc gglhhlii hhiaaihh jjgccgbb eelddXhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111 100111 1111010011 101101 0101111 01001100101 1110101 0110100011101 111111 111101 1101010101 110111 1000101 0011101101 10110101 110101010101 111111 010111 1011010101 1100101 101111 1111011111 11111111 1101101010101 101101 101011 1111101111 111111 1111011 1011111101 101111110 11111101111110 111111 111001 1110111111 101111 0111011 1011111111 11111111 111011110110011 011111 0101101 0110111111 011101 110101 1111111011 010100111 1100101110101 011111 101111 110011101101 101101 101101 1011011101 011000101 110001011011 111110 111101 1011001101 111111 110101 111100111000 110110101 1101011011101 111111 101000011 0111011101 111101 11110000 10011110101 1111011110 1111110101010 101111 101011 11010111101 101101 101111 0111101101 10110011 011001011111 111111 101111 11111011111001 111111 011100 1101111111 1110111101 00101010101001 101111001 110111 101001100101 011011 101111 110011100101 111100101 011111100111 110111 110111 101101100111 1011101 011100 11110100101 11111111 111111110111 101111 0101111 0101010011 110111 11001001 10110110100 11011001001 1011011010111 1111100 111011 1111111101 1000101 0111001 11110010101 11011001 110101010111 1011111 010101 11110111001 111001 111100 11011010011 11100110 01101110010111 0111001 10101011 10111001001 100101 11001111 0101110101 10110001 1100101010011 110111 111111 1111111101 110111 110100 1111111110 10110111 101101001101 110011 111101 1101011111 110111 110111 00110011111 00110110 10110011100100 0010011 101101 01001101111 111111 0100111 11111101111 011010011 010101110111 001111 1111101 010100111110 1111001 0100101 101101001100 10010101 111111000111
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 322
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 188
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; same, to, and, than, thy, all, one, thee, their, that, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, poorer, and, now, one, with, thee, to are repeated.
The author used the same words the, to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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