This is an analysis of the poem The Plaint Of King Yew's Forsaken Wife that begins with:
The fibres of the white-flowered rush
Are with the white grass bound....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabaacdc ef efaaba aaaagdhX ifXfgjgj ikikhlgl heeeciii hbcbjadaXcaiaicic
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,2,6,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010001101 100111 11010101 010101 11111101 010101 10111101 111101 11110011 010101 11010101 11001001 11000101 011101 01010001 011001 10011101 011101 11010111 110101 11111101 100111 11111101 111100 011010101 111101 11110101 111101 11111101 110101 01101101 110111 01110101 110111 11010011 010101 11001101 100101 111001101 011011 01001101 101001 01100101 110101 10110101 101101 11010100 111101 01011101 011101 11110111 110101 11110111 010111 11110101 110101 11110101 110101 10010001 100111 1101000101 101111 11110101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, 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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