This is an analysis of the poem The Child Of Elle that begins with:

On yonder hill a castle standes,
With walles and towres bedight,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX baca daca ceeX XXXf XghX ijkj keje bXXX Ceje ClXX XXXX jeXX mXfX daXa XXfX bemX lfXX XXhe biaX BlHl BaHX bLiX XXne XXXX Xede XmaX naXX afff bXXX XffX Xege giXX XdbX BLbl aXbX fele Xafa fidi XeXe fXag hXeg Biei XeXe fenX XXgi XdXd Xiii XiXi XfeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101010 0111010 11010101 011101 010100101 1110101 11110110001 110101 01011111 111111 1111110001 110101 111111011 111111 11111111 11111001 110101110 101011001 11101011 100111 111110101 1001001 110101110 11111 111110101 011111 110110101 110101 11010101 1011111 10101100111 11000101 1101100101 1100110 1011101111 111010010 101111011 111101 110110111 011101 101111011 111111 0101110110 011111 01110111 1101111 10110110001 110111 11101111 1111111 0101111110 111111 11111111 110110 1101101 1100101 11110111 1100101 1001111 111111 1001111 110110 010010111 1111100 11111101 110111 111111101 00111101 11100111 110101 011101011 11011110 110100101 010110 111110010 1000111 111111011 10111111 11111101 1111110 111101101 1010111 1111111010 1011111 111101101 110101 1111111010 10111100 1101111011 110111 111101011 1101011 11110001 11010 010110011 110101 1101010111 1010110 110100101 111110 10100110 0010111 11111100 1111111 10011101 011101 1100100101 0101010 0101101011 110111 11111101 0101001 1101111001 011001 1110100101 11001001 11110101 1100110 11111110 1101110 11010010 110011 11010101101 0101010 11111101 111101 011110111 1100111 1111111 111111 11101001 1101001 1111111 111111 11101001 1111010 1101111011 110111 110110101 1100101 01011111 10101110 111110101 1110101 110101101 11011 11111011 111101 0101101001 111111 111101101 1101001 11111110 111111 11011101 110111 11011101 1111001 10111101 11111 11011101 110101 11110111 111101 110111110 101011101 010111101 010111 1101111011 101101 11110101 110101 10111101 011111 11110101 1101101 11111101 110111 11111101 1101100 010110111 110110 01100101 110101 01010111 110101 111101001 0100101 110101011 11011 11111101 100111 11011101 0100101 1101010 010111 111101101 1010111 11110111 1101000
  • Amount of stanzas: 50
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 200
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; and, he, thee, her, nay, his, your are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words the, 'and, 'nowe, 'o, 'but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    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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