This is an analysis of the poem Magdalen that begins with:
All things I can endure, save one.
The bare, blank room where is no sun;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aababXccddeeffbbaaaaggggaabbbbbaa ggbbfafa ddXeaa hiihacacbcbcjajaa Eekkbgbgbbll EeXXddeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,8,6,17,12,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110111 01111011 0100100101 01010101 01010101 0101000100 11110111 110000101 10110111 11111100 11111110 11010101 00110111 11111111 11110011 11010011 10101110 10011111 11010111 00110101 10110011 11010111 10011111 11110101 11111101 11010101 11011101 01010101 11111111 11000101 11100101 001111110 110011010 11111111 11110111 11010111 11110111 01100111 11011111 01111101 11110101 10011110 101010111 111101010 01111101 11111101 11011101 11110111 11010101 11110111 10111101 11111101 01111111 11110101 11010101 11110111 11010111 01010111 10111101 11111111 01101101 11110111 01111101 01000101 01011111 01011111 10100001 11111111 11101101 11010111 100100101 11110101 10010100 10011101 11011111 01110111 01011111 11110111 11111111 1101010110 11111111 10111110 11011111 11110100 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 504
- Average number of words per stanza: 98
- Amount of lines: 85
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; your, i, how, my, and, or, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, no, your, how, that are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Magdalen;
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- history of its creation;
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