This is an analysis of the poem Kemp Owyne that begins with:

Her mother died when she was young,
Which gave her cause to make great moan;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbc dece feeefe aeXe Xeee AeGE dEBEBX HXAeGX dEbEBX HXAeGE dEBEBX HXgege
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,4,4,4,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011111 11010111 010100110 11010100 1100111 010011111 11010101 110010101 11111101 11110101 111011001 11110101 11011110 11111100 01110111 11010101 11010111 11010111 11010110 11110101 11010101 11010111 01110111 11010101 10011101 101011101 10010111 11110011 11110001 1111100 10111111 11111111 1101001 01011111 01110111 11010101 10011101 101011101 10010111 11110011 11110001 1111100 10111111 11111111 1101001 01011111 01110111 11010101 10011101 101011101 10010111 11110011 11110001 1111100 10111111 11111111 1101001 01011111 01110111 11010101 11001101 110101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 62
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; her, she, in, your are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines sea is repeated).

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

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