This is an analysis of the poem The Faithless Knight that begins with:

THE lady she sate in her bower alone,
And she gaz'd from the lattice window high, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefgdgXXgagaeaea
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01011001001 1110010101 101110101 0010110101 111110111 11111111 10100110111 1011101111 011110101 11101101010 010010111 1111011011010 111110111 1110101111 1111111111 01101111111 111101101 1011011101 11110111101 11100111110 110011111 11011011101 1100111111 11110100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 368
  • Average number of words per stanza: 73
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, and, many are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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