This is an analysis of the poem Mary Ambree that begins with:

When captaines couragious, whom death cold not daunte,
Did march to the siege of the citty of Gaunt,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabX aaXX XXXX ccXX ccbX cXXX bbbX ddbX eeXX bbXX aaXX aabX fXXX ccbX ccbX ggXX ccbX aabX fXbX XXbX eebX XXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110010011111 01001001001 11011011111 10100101101 101101011001 11011001101 011111100 110011101 1110001001 01001011001 011011111 11001101101 0100111001 0110111101 10101011011 11001101101 11101101001 10111101001 01101011011 11001101101 11011101011 11011011110 11001010011 11001101101 11101011101 11110001001 11111011101 11011011010 11001011011 01011001101 01101011011 11001101101 1010101011 01001001101 01101101011 11001101101 11101001001 11111011001 10100100101 11001101101 1101001001 101001001011 1100110111 11001101101 11011001001 01101011011 10011011101 11001101101 1010011101 1111101010 101000011011 11001101101 0111001101 11011111001 0110111001 111001101 11101101001 11001101001 110110001101 1101101101 11101011011 0101111111 1111111111 1111101 110010001011 11101111101 11101011011 1101010011 11001001011 11011011111 11101011011 101101011010 11101011101 11011101001 01011111011 11111011010 01011010010 1110111011 11011001001 1101100101 10100100101 11111011011 01001011001 01001001101 10011011010 11001011001 1010100010001 1101100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 88
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, shee, with, this, of, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, with are repeated.

    The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same words ambree, ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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