This is an analysis of the poem The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto Iv (Excerpts) that begins with:

CANTO IIII
To sinfull house of Pride, Duessa... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXa bXcXccdcdd X eXebbabfX X Xgfggbgbb X XfXXXXfXX b XafaaXabX b afaXfXfaa X fXfhhfhfX X Xbabbeiee X fefeXXXXe g aXaeXaeaa b jkjkkXXXX X kbkXXfXff X clcXlblbX X hjhjjajXa X XhehhfXXX X gkgkkjkjj X Xbcbbfbff X gXXXXeXee X lflXXbfbb X XjXjXijii X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,10,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 101 01010110 10101 11010110 110101 1 1111011110 1111010101 0101010100 011101111 1100101101 1110011101 1101101101 110110001 11010110101 1 1101111101 11100001 111000111 110111001 1001011111 010101010 010110101 1010011111 111101110100 1 1101010100 1111010111 110110101 0100101101 1101001101 1101010101 101011101 1101001001 11010100101 1 010101011 1100101101 1101110111 1101110010 1101010110 1101010110 1101001101 101100110010 110101101010 1 0101011010 1101000101 111111101 0111010101 1101011101 1101010111 11001010100 1101011111 010011110100 1 01111011 1101011101 1100100101 1100110110 10011111001 0101110101 1001010001 110101011 001101001101 1 10111110101 10010111001 110110001 0101011101 11010111001 11101010101 1101110101 010110111001 101101011100 1 1011010111 1011111101 111111010 010111001 0101111101 01011100101 101101010 01010001001 11001110101 1 0101110101 100101011 110100101001 11010010101 1011010101 110101101010 1101011101 1101010101 01011011100101 1 1111000101 10010111010 1101110101 11010100111 01010011001 1001110101 0101110101 1001110101 111101110101 1 0101010101 1100100101 10110100101 1100011011 11011101011 1101110101 1011010110 1001010110 101100110010 1 1110001001 1101011100 1101011111 11100010100 101001110 0101011101 1110101110 11100001101 101101010001 1 1101010101 111010101 010101011 1111010010 1101000101 0011111101 1010000101 1101010101 01010100110 1 011110111 1100010001 11101100001 0101010101 01011010101 0101010101 111110101 11110110101 1101011010111 1 1011111100 1101011011 101111001 110111001 1011100111 101110101 111110101 1111010101 101111010010 1 1010000101 0101110111 1101110101 1101000101 1001010111 1111010111 01001010001 1111001001 01001001111101 1 1111100111 011011101 1111110001 1101010101 1101010111 0111011111 01011110111 1011011001 1101011101001 1 1011011001 1101110001 101011010 0101001110 0101110101 1101000101 0101011101 1001011101 101101010001 1 1001010111 1111101101 1001011101 11011100101 111101011 0101000111 1101110101 1111110001 111101111101 1 0101101010 110110101 01001110010 1101011101 011101010 1111010100 1001011101 01010101000 111100100100 1 1101110100 01101011 0101110100 1101010001 1101011111 0111010101 1110110101 1101110101 11101110110 1 0111111101 1101111111 110111101 0101110101 1111111101 1001010101 0111111101 0101111001 01111101011 1 0111110101 111010111 1100010001 110111111 1001110101 1001010101 101110101 111010101 111100010011 1 1101110100 0101011101 1101010100 1101011101 1111110010 10001011101 110101111 1101001101 111101010100 1 001111111 1101010100 1001010111 1011011100 1111110100 1110101010 1111110100 11011101010 11010100101010 1 100111111 1101011101 11101010101 1111010111 0011011101 1101101001 01101011110 1101010101 11110010101 1 1101001101 0101010101 1101011101 0101011111 1001110111 1001010111 1101111101 100101101 111110010101 1 0111101110 1111110111 11101010101 1101110101 0101110001 11111110111 0100110101 0111010101 110101101110 1 1101110110 1101010101 1111111100 1111110111 110111101 0101110111 0101110111 1111111111 111100010011 1 110101011 01010011101 10010101001 1101010101 1100110011 1101111101 1101110011 1111010111 111101110101 1 100101001 111100101 1001010011 11001010110 0101110110 1111110101 1100101100 110101100 01100010110 1 11010101101 1111110101 1101010101 01011011101 11000011101 1101010101 11100110101 0101111101 11111110101 1 1101111001 0101011001 1001010111 0111000101 01011101001 111111110 1101011101 1101010111 1001101110011 1 0101011101 1111110110 1100010101 10011111000 11111001000 11010011100 011110101 1101110111 1101001010101 1 1101001011 0110111001 1001011001 1010010101 1101010001 1111010111 0101110101 01010111010 1111010001010 1 1101010101 1100010101 011101011 11111001001 1101000101 1011110111 0101110101 1101111101 111101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 72
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 390
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; of, she, her, them, their, and, to, his, he, with, whose, doth are repeated.

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

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