This is an analysis of the poem The Unforgiven that begins with:
When he, who is the unforgiven,
Beheld her first, he found her fair: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbab cdcddcd ececcec adaddad efefcef aXaggag hahaaha gigiigi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111001010 10011101 110101010 1111101 11110101 110111010 10011111 110001110 01010101 111011110 01011101 11011101 010111010 11010011 110101111 11000101 111111011 11010101 11110001 111001011 11011101 110101010 11110011 010011010 010110101 11000101 110111110 11110101 110111011 11010101 1110111001 01011001 11010101 110001011 11011101 110100010 11011101 100001010 01000110 01111100 110001010 11111100 111101110 11110111 110101010 01111111 11010101 011110010 01010011 110111110 11110101 011111110 11110001 11001101 110001010 11110001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and, would, he, her, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, this are repeated.
The author used the same words and, he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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