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

THE SIXTE BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QUEENE
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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXbcb deXXXXXXcX X fgXXXeXee X dfdXfhfXh X hXhffifii d ciXXXjijj d XcXccXcXX X cgcXXegee X XeXeejejX X heheeeeee a ececcdcdd d gXXXXeXee X klklXelXe X ididdXdee X cjcXjfjfX X eeeXXgXgg X Xeheeaeaa X eXXXXfgff X XefXXXeXX X mXmXXdXdd X gaXaaXa
  • 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,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0110011 100 01001100 10100001 10010101 010100 01010001 000100 1 1111001101 10100110111 1000011110 1101011111 1111011010 01011110100 1110011110 1101111001 0100110111100 1 10111101101 0101110111 0101010101 1101000101 01110110010 1101010101 10111101001 0101010101 0100111010101 1 1110111010 0111011011 1111011101 0101111100 1100110111 01110010101 1101010101 01111101110 1001010011001 1 11111101001 1011110001 011011111 1101110101 0111110101 11101110101 11001001001 0111011001 011101111001 1 1111010101 10011000111 1101101101 1001110010 01111010110 1111011101 10001011101 111001111 100010110101 1 0111101101 1101110001 0101111010 0111010101 1011010101 1001010101 1011010101 1011010101 1011010010011 1 1101110101 0101010101 1001011101 1111101110101 100101111011 1101101101 0011100101 1011010100 100101101101 1 1101110101 0101010101 1001110111 1101011101 11111011101 0100110101 1100010101 0101000101 110101011100 1 1111011001 010101001 1001101001 1101100101 1001010111 11001100100 111010101 10010010001 100111101101 1 1001110101 101110101 0011110111 1101110101 1101110001 1101011100 1101010101 1100110101 100101010101 1 1111000101 11001000010 1100110101 1001000101 0101100100 110111101 1101110110 1101010101 110001110001 1 1101010001 1101100100 1101001111 01001010101 1101000101 10010011111 0101010101 01011101100 100101010111 1 1101110101 01010010111 1100100101 10110011101 00110010001 101100100 1011010101 10100101100 110101010100 1 1101000101 1101011101 1110010001 1101010010 1001010111 0010110101 01011101101 1101011001 110111000110 1 1001010001 10001011101 1001111111 1101110111 1111000111 011001111 100111100 1101110101 111111001101 1 1101110101 111101101 110101111 11011101101 11011011101 1101011101 1011111101 1100110101 110110000101 1 1101001011 1101011101 110101001 1101011101 1000010101 11011011001 0101110101 1101010101 100111101001 1 111101011 1101011001 1101111101 1101011110 0101010111 1111110101 1100111101 1111110101 111101011111 1 1111011011 101010111010 1100010101 100011010100 10110111010 1111110100 11011111010 1101110101 111101110101 1 1111010111 1101010111 11110110110 1101110101 1110011101 1101111100 1111000101 1111111101 111011111111 1 1111011001 11110101011 1111011101 1101010101 1100010101 1111011001 0101011101 0010111111 111001111001 1 1101001101 110101100 0101000101 1101100101 01010010 01011111010 010011100 111011010 1100111101110 1 1111110101 1101011001 0101011101 1101010101 1101010011 110100010 1111010111 111100101 010111110100 1 1111010101 1111111100 1101011011 1110010111 1011010101 1101101111 1100110101 11101100110 101011110101 1 1011001101 1111110101 1110110111 1001010101 010010101100 1111111101 0001011101 1111010101 1111010101011 1 1111010001 1101010110 1111010001 0111010101 11101110001 1110010101 1101011101 1111010001 11011000101 1 0101110100 0111010101 0101010001 01100101001 11001111101 111011011 11010100001 111111001 111101110101 1 1001110001 11011100110 1101010100 10110111010 11110101010 0111001110 1101110101 1111010110 010100010101 1 1111010101 1100110101 10111101001 1101001100 1001111101 1101010111 1101111111 10010010101 1010011101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 58
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 317
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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, in, that, all, mote, ne, to, and, her, or, them, thou, she, thy are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, for, and, thy, yet are repeated.

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