This is an analysis of the poem The Faerie Queene, Book Iii, Canto Vi that begins with:

THE THIRD BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QUEENE
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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXabbcb adXddXXXeX X fafXXgaXg X hihiibiXb X XjaXjkjkk a kXkggbgbb a babaaXXhh X XXXXXXXXX X XgXggXgXX X gcgccXXXX j jXjXXcXXX a clXllaXXX X XjjcXmcmm X bcbccXcXX X cacXXnann X cbcXXcXcX X cbcXXaXXe X ihihhchcc X aXaXcccXc X oXXXXjXmm X ccXccbc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0110011 100 01001000 10100001 0101101 010001 01000101 010101 1 1111110101 1101010100 1110000001 1101010101 1101110100 0110001100 1011111110 1101010100 110110011000 1 100110001 0101100011 1001110101 010000100 110101110 101110101 11110001001 11001100010 110101010101 1 0110010101 1001000101 1101010001 1110001101 1010000101 1101011111 1111010101 011111101 10010101110 1 010101100 0100100111 011100101 111011011 1100000101 11010110101 0100011001 110101111 0110111101 1 0001010001 1111001100 0111011011 0011010101 10111101011 1111010101 1010000101 0011010101 11010111101 1 1100100111 1100010101 1000110010 010101011 1101010001 0010110111 1101010110 11010111001 1101010100101 1 11110010010 010110111 0101010101 0101110110 01101010101 1011010100 1100011110 01111101010 100101110100 1 01001101110 11100010 11010101010 011101010 0010001010 1101110111 110101010 1001010111 01001110111 1 110101010 0101100111 101101010 1001011101 01110100101 11110010100 1111111110 1001010110 111011011110 1 1001011101 10101001 1100010001 1110010111 1101011111 110110101 0111110001 1011010100 111001010110 1 0100110101 010101101 1111010111 1001111101 1101010101 1001011101 11111100010 1100010110 1000101111110 1 11011101001 01010101111 1101010100 100111101 0111010111 1110011101 1111011101 1101011101 100110110001 1 1111011111 1001111111 1101111101 0111011001 0110110101 10111100111 1001001001 1101110110 111101001111 1 1101010101 11001010111 11001010111 11111101 001111100 11001111001 00100101111 1010001101 010001110011 1 1001010111 10010100010 1101010001 11110101110 101101110100 11010101011 10111011010 1101101111 011001110110 1 1101011111 1110111111 1110101111 1101011101 01110101010 1110110101 1101010011 1111010110 010101010100 1 10100100111 0111010001 1011011001 1001001001 1001000101 0101010011 1110101101 1011000101 010101010101 1 1101010111 0111010110 0101000101 10110101110 1001010101 01010110101 1000110001 1101010110 100101011001 1 1111010101 11010011100 1111010101 11101101100 110011000100 0101010101 10000101100 1111100101 1101001010001 1 1011110101 110101101 0011001010 00110110101 1101110101 011101110 1101011001 1001000011 11010101110 1 1001010101 001110011 111110110 0111111101 01101111010 1111100110 11011000010 01001011001 011110110101 1 1101110100 1101010101 1101010100 01010010101 110110111 0101110101 11110101010 1111001001 110100101101 1 1110111111 01101100101 1111011110 1111001110 11010001100 111110111 1101110111 1101110010 1101001110011 1 1101001110 1101111111 1111010101 1111110101 11111000101 1011100100 11001111101 0111110011 110101111111 1 1111011101 1101011101 1111101101 0101110100 1100100111 1101011011 1111110101 1101010101 010101110111 1 01010101011 01010101001 1100011001 0101001111 111111010 011110011 1100010110 1001010101 1001111111101 1 100100110011 1110011101 10010110101 1001111101 1011010101 1101110110 1111010101 1001011001 100101010101 1 1101110110 100100010 1100010110 0010001100 100101101 1100110110 0010010100 1001011111 010001010010 1 1100010100 11110111111 1101110110 1001011001 1001001111 111111101 1101010110 110101101 010001011011 1 01110101010 1001101010 11010001000 111001100 0111110111 01001101100 100101010 01010111101 111111110101 1 0101010101 1100111101 01010010011 1111011101 1101011101 1110111101 1111010111 110010001 11001010101 1 1100110101 11010001010 0101010101 01111111010 110101010010 1111111001 0111101010 1101010101 111010110101 1 101110011 1011010010 1101111101 100101101 11010111110 1101110101 11000100110 1101101111 110101110101 1 1111100111 0111101101 1111010011 110101011 111101101 1100011101 11111010001 1001010111 100110010101 1 1001010111 11110111101 11001000101 1101110101 1111000110 1111111101 1101010101 0101011000 11010111001 1 1011110111 0001000101 100111011 11100010101 1011010101 1001100111 010010010110 1110010110 010001010100 1 1101111101 1111010111 1111110011 0101011101 0101100101 1100101101 111011001111 1001100101 110011010011 1 0100110110 110111010 1100100010 01011101001 110101010 11011000101 110111010 111101101 110101010101 1 11000010101 10010001001 0101100110 11010101101 1111000111 1111011101 1101100101 10111110101 111011010101 1 111000101 0111111101 1111010001 0100110101 011101101 1101010011 1111101110 1111001011 110101101111 1 1001111100 11001001010 110111001 1111111010 11110110010 011101110 10110001010 1101111011 11010011100 1 10100011101 100110111 110101101001 1011010101 1110010111 1101110111 01010101111 100111101 111101100110 1 1001001101 1101011111 0101010101 1110110101 1101110101 1101010001 1011011101 1101010110 111101011101 1 1001010011 1101010111 1001110101 1101110101 010111001 1101110010 1001011101 1101011101 11011110101 1 11011100101 0111001001 110010100 1101 1010110101 1100010111 1100001101 11011100101 011101110101 1 1111010001 0101010100 1111000101 1111010111 1010110100 1010011001 01001110110 1101110110 100110010101 1 11010111111 1101110101 01001111101 101010100 101001000 110101100 01111010 11010011011 111111110101 1 1111001001 1001010010 11101111100 100111101 1111011110 11001100011 1011010110 0011011011 1010111111101 1 1111010101 0100010100 110110011 1010010100 11110101100 1001100101 0101010100 1001110011 0101010100101 1 10111100110 1100110100 10110110100 0101010010 111001010 1101011101 1011111101 1011111110 100100101101 1 1011010101 010100100 1101001111 0100100001 11101100 111100010 1011010011 1001010100 010101110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 102
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 559
  • 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, her, in, his, she, and, to, old, they, some, for, all, their, part are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, so, she, of, his, her, old, some, sad, pleasure are repeated.

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