This is an analysis of the poem Lady Kathleen that begins with:

Fair Lady Kathleen in her tower
Bowed her head like a wounded flower;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdddXeX ffbbaaggXX bbdXXddhXeX iidddXjXeeX hbbddjjeeXhXdbbeXffcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,10,11,11,21,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 110010010 101101010 11010101 111101101 111111011 11111101 0101110111 110100101 110111101 010111101 01001111 11001101110 1101101001 1000100100 011100101 1010100101 1101010010 10101011110 010110111 111101101 11001110 11001101101 010100111 010110111 1010100101 101001101 11010101 1101100101 10100111101 001001001 10101110110 101001111 1101111010 0011110101 010011101 11100100101 1010110111 1010101101 1110100101 001100111 110111111 1111111101 010110101 1111001010 1101111111 111111111 010111111 111111111 00101001001 1111111101 01011110111 1101111101 1011111101 1100010101 111111101 111110110 111110110 111101111 010100101 010100101 1111111010 111101101 010101111 110100101 11001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 524
  • Average number of words per stanza: 105
  • Amount of lines: 65
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.

    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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