This is an analysis of the poem La Passion Vaincue that begins with:
On the Banks of the Severn a desperate Maid
(Whom some Shepherd, neglecting his Vows, had betray'd) ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXXXaee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 101001001001 111001001101 101001011001 101101001101 101111011101 101001111001 11011011001 101001111111 1100101100010 11001101001 101011101010 11101011001 11101111101 101111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 716
- Average number of words per stanza: 130
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; my, and, some, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words since, some are repeated.
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