This is an analysis of the poem Llewellen Powell that begins with:
Villain, when the word is spoken,
And your chains at last are broken... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccbdbeedddffghhgiihjjhhihhkhkaalccl mmaacachhjjjjkaakbkbk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 38,21,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 11111110 1010101 10100011 10101011 1010001 00101010 1001111 1111101 0010001 10101010 00101110 10000010 1010101 1000101 1110111 11101010 10101110 1010111 1110001 1000101 11101010 0110101 1010101 10101010 101010010 1010101 11111010 10011010 1110101 11100010 1010111 1010101 11001101 10111110 1110101 1001110 11101010 1110001 1011111 10111110 10100110 1110111 10101010 1010001 11010010 11000010 1010111 1010001 1110101 1001101 1010101 01101010 01100010 1010001 1010101 1011101 0110001 1010001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 884
- Average number of words per stanza: 158
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; beware, you, by are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word by is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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