This is an analysis of the poem Maude Clare that begins with:
Out of the church she followed them
With a lofty step and mien: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba bcdc dede Xbfb bbbb agXg cdcd ahbh edad ijej gfhfXbfif
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10011100 0010111 01110101 111101 110010101 011101 11111111 111110 11010001 111101 11111111 111111 11110101 111101 11111111 1101101 11111111 111111 01010101 010101 101100101 110111 11110101 110001 101100101 1100101 01010101 0101101 11010101 110001 10111111 111101 11011101 110111 10010101 1001001 11100101 100101 10110110 111111 11111111 111111 111111011 111111 11110101 111111 11111111 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 48
- 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; pale, my, to, bless, he, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, he, and are repeated.
The author used the same word here at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word clare at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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