This is an analysis of the poem Madge Linsey, Or The Three Souls that begins with:

Madge Linsey at the well raised the deep waters,
Brimmed her brass bucket full, went from her place....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbccbcbbXb defedghgdidicgcg cejeiklkaeieafdf heaXhXaX flmlgjij fgigblilffifmjnj gloloXggaijXlXaX fiiXjijXlcccgj ajcehXhjnX olmlefbfXXXXhFlXgo aXmadalcgcjoco hXafhbXXlehXhehe olmlhfgfelflholo mXfjhXhXXXbXdicX hecXhehXfjeXhilX fFhX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,16,16,8,8,16,16,14,10,18,14,16,16,16,16,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010110110 1011011001 11010011010 1101011001 11010110010 1011011001 10110110110 1101011111 10111011111 01101111001 11011111110 11001101001 11110111110 1011001011 11010010110 0001001011 11010010110 1101001101 010111100100 10010010001 11011110110 1001011011 11010011010 01001001101 10110110010 1101010001 11011110010 1011111111 110101100100 1101011001 111101100101 1101011010 110101110111 1001111001 101100100101 1111001011 110111110101 1001011001 1000101101101 1001111001 11000110110 1101010011 101110100100 1011001001 10101010110100 10110101101 101100110111 1111011001 110101110110 1101011111 110101111100 1111011111 100101101101 1101011001 100011101101 1111111011 100111010111 1001111001 100101100101 1111011011 1001001110101 11010101001 110101101101 1001011001 111110100111 1111101101 100110101101 1001101001 100100110101 1001111001 110100110101 1010001101 1101011001101 1101011001 100101011101 1011011001 1100100110101 1011001011 101100101101 1101001101 100101101101 10110111010 100101100101 10010010101 101100111101 10110110101 100101100101 1001011010 110101101101 1101010010 100101111101 10110010110 111101011101 1001011011 1101010110101 11010110110 111101100100 1111011101 110101101101 11110110110 110110100111 1101010101 1101011010001 1011111011 110101110101 1011111101 110101110101 1111011101 101101010100 11010001011 1101010110100 1111111011 110101110110 1101010011 110011101101 11110111110 110111100101 1001011011 100101100111 1101011011 110101101101 00011011011 100111100100 1111011001 110110101111 11111011110 110111101101 101111110110 101101110110 1011011101 110101100101 0011111101 110100100101 1001011111 001101110101 1101011101 101101110101 01110101001 100101010100 11110100101 110111110101 1101011011 110101111101 1001010011 101101010101 1111011001 1101001101101 1011001101 111101110110 1011011001 100111111101 1001011001 111101110100 0001011001 101111101111 11110111010 110101110101 10010110011 111111110100 11110111110 000101101100 1111001111 1101010110110 1001001101 110101100101 1001011011 100101100111 1011011101 100101110110 1101011101 111101110101 1101011011 110100110101 0011111101 110101101101 1111001001 101101110100 1011011001 110100101001 1101001011 101110110101 1111011010 001110101111 1001011001 1110110110110 1001011011 110101110100 1101011011 111101111100 0011001111 110100111101 1101111011 110101110100 100111101 101100110100 11110110010 1011110110110 1011001111 111111111100 1111001101 100111110100 1111001111 1101010100110 1111011001 111101100101 1001000101 100100111101 11010110110 110111110110 1111010011 101101111101 10110110100 111101110101 1011011101 101101111100 10110011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 656
  • Average number of words per stanza: 125
  • Amount of lines: 218
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; her, and, had, to, his, of, ', but, my, she, by, for, he are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words knowing, had, only, never, someone, what are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' 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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  • summary of Madge Linsey, Or The Three Souls;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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