This is an analysis of the poem The Faithful Guardian that begins with:
Two beautiful and rosy babes are pictured here alone,
Two infants of a noble race, as any near the throne:-- ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaa ddddeecc ffggeegg ddaahhii Xfccjjee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11001101110101 11000101110101 10010111010101 01110111110101 10010111100111 01010101110111 11110101110111 01100101010001 11010101111101 01010101011101 01010101000101 110100111010011 11110101110101 001010101011101 01110101110101 01010101111111 11100001011101 11110101111101 101010111110111 111110111010101 10010101111101 100111101010111 100111101111111 11110101010111 111010101110011 11110101111111 101111001110010 10111111110011 11111101111111 111111011101001 10111101111101 1101110011100101 111101111101100 11101111010111 11111001110101 11011101110111 11010101100111 01111100010101 11111101110111 11110111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 530
- Average number of words per stanza: 92
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, for, thy, thou, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words two, if, e'er, thou are repeated.
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