This is an analysis of the poem The Rising In The North that begins with:

Listen, lively Lordings all,
Lithe and listen unto mee,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaX cXXX dbeX bbeX DBFX DBFX gXhX XbdX Xiji kblb cbXX ecdc mbjb dXlb cbcX bdeX cbib XbXX nXbX Xobo cXeX cbXX pbkX lbcX cdhX mbeb XhjX Xgpg jnXn dbcX XXjc mbXX egeX XbdX eXmc XXXh cbdb XXoX eiXi
  • 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,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010101 1110101 110100101 01010011 1100000101 110110011 11011011 11110111 110101101 110111101 11010001 11111100 1111111 01110111 11000111 11011111 110011011 11110101 01010111 1110111 110011011 11110101 01010111 1110111 11111101 0101010 101100110 1011111 1100111110 11100111 11111101 01011101 11111101 11011111 1101111 11010011 1111011011 1110101 01010111 010111011 10101100 11010111 11110011 10101100 11010111 1010111 101100101 01011101 10110011 1110101 110100101 11010001 11010011 101110 11010111 11100101 1111010010 01011101 11110111 110100100 101100111 110100101 110100111 11111111 10010011 11010101 10111101 101111 111011010 1011111 110011101 011101011 1000101 100110 11010111 111101011 10011101 11101111 110001111 01010111 111111010 11110111 11110011 1100101100 1011111 11011101 000111110 11010101 110111010 11010001 111111001 10111101 11010101 01110011 11110101 10111111 111100100 1011011 010011010 1101011000 00010101 010010011 11011011 1110101 11000101 01111010 11101010 0111110 101010101 01110111 01010101 10111101 11111101 1001101 110101110 11111101 110100101 01010111 010010101 0111010 010010111 11110110 1101101011 11010101 110101101 010111011 110101101 00100011 01110101 11010111 101001010 1101001100 1110101010 01110101 111010101 01011111 100110101 1101010110 10101101 111101111 11110100 1111111 1101011000 11111110 10110111 10111001 01110111 01110111 110111010 11010111 1100101111 10111101 101100101 110101 110011100 110100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 39
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 156
  • 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; to, my, thou, you, your, of, they, thy, and, many are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words 'now, 'o 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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