This is an analysis of the poem The Nut-Brown Maid that begins with:

He.BE it right or wrong, these men among
On women do complain; ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbXbbbdbeb fgXXXghgibeb jXhXbXfkebjb XcdjlcdjkXGB ddfdfdXddbDB jbfbfbdbkbGB iXgbmbebdbDB fgbgdgggfXGB gfgfXfeffXdB alnlilXldbGB doeXkoiXdbDB fkmkekpkebGB ogfgXgdgqbDB fegeregeibGB XbXbXbsbibDB XjdcXjXjXbGB rbXbbbcbXbDB XfXXXfXfdXGB kfkfgfefXbdB dXkgrXdg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101111101 110101 01001100 011101 010111001 110101 11011111 110001 10010001 111101 100111001 100101 11111111 0011011 11010111 110010 11001101 001101 11111010 010111 11011001 000101 11011001 111101 100111101 111010 01011010 110101 11101101 111110 100111010 111111 11011111 110111 100111001 110101 11101010 000101 10010101 111111 01111001 1100001 11011101 110001 11110111 111110 10110111 111101 11010101 101111 11000101 010111 110101110 110111 1001111 111011 100011111 110111 11100111 010101 11100101 110101 11010101 0100101 11111111 11111 111110011 011111 11101011 110101 10110111 111101 11010111 111110 11001101 010111 11101111 100101 11111011 111001 11111110 1100111 11100111 010101 101111101 010011 11010101 111111 10011101 101101 110010111 100101 11101111 110010 10110111 111101 101110101 110111 01010101 110101 11001010 011101 11111101 110101 10111111 01111 11100111 010101 100010111 111001 10011111 010011 11011101 000101 01011100 010101 11111111 110111 10110111 111101 11010101 001101 10011011 01011 11110111 011001 11011111 100111 01011111 111101 11100111 010101 11111111 001101 11111111 111101 01110111 011111 11111100 111111 010101011 111101 10110111 111101 10110001 111111 011100 110001 01111110 110111 10111111 111101 111011001 001101 100100111 010101 101111100 110101 11000001 001101 10110110 0100111 11010101 010111 11011101 011101 10110111 111101 1010111011 111101 01010110 010101 01011111 111101 11011101 101111 11111101 111101 11100111 010101 101110100 010111 1111011 011100 1111011 110000 11101101 111101 01111101 110101 10110111 111101 1111011010 111101 11110101 1011111 11110101 10111 11011111 0101111 1111011 111111 100100111 010101 10011111 111110 111110010 10111 11010010 101101 01011111 011111 11110111 110110 10110111 111101 101011111 010101 11111111 11101 01011001 1100010 10110111 011011 01101010 1010111 10100111 010101 11111111 1100100 01110101 010101 1111001110 111111 11011101 110111 10111111 0110101 10110111 111101 101111111 111111 11010001 011110 11111101 011100 1110101000 010100 001011111 11001 100100101 010101 11110011 110101 111111100 11111 11110100 010100 11111111 010101 11011001 011110 10110111 111101 11010001 00011 0010111 010110 11000110 010101 11110101 11111 100110001 011111 01100111 010101 1000011101 001011 10111111 111101 010111111 101111 01010101 110111 11101111 110101 10110111 111101 11111101 100101 11011001 111111 0101111010 110101 10111101 010111 00110101 101011 100100101 010101 100011101 110100 10110111 111001 11111111 11010010 10101110 0110110 11111101 111011 10110111 111101 101111101 110111 01010111 0111011 010110111 01011 10011111 111101 0101101011 011101 10100111 111101 101001101 100101 01011101 100101 11011011 010101 11111001 110111 10011101 111110 10110111 111101 11111001 10110 11011101 01101 11010010 101100 10111001 11010 10111101 110111 1111111 110101 11111100 0111110 11011001 1101000 11011111 0001000 1111011110 0101000 11111101 010011 11110101 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 30
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 362
  • Average number of words per stanza: 74
  • Amount of lines: 360
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, to, that, i, you, ye, be, and, your are repeated.

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

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