This is an analysis of the poem Petronilla that begins with:
Of Peter's daughter, it is said, men told,
While yet she breathed, a tale as sad as life,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdbdaadaacefXgaaXgahcgddiffigijkkldcgjeXghhdecmdfhknngfdoaiajaoagoX ggdcijgbocbdhccgdaXfXcdhgbpdXmnoapnqgaXbgaihXjofacgeefagppdpkpckdggcaihgpXqpdgaiqflpamcfgaoaohgXieaaogpcaahhcdicaoccdfdlfaXppXh Xhgblhgjc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 69,127,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101000111 1111011111 1111111111 01001010111 1001011001 0111 110111 1111110111 0101111111 1111110101 1101101101 0111000101 1111010111 0101010111 1100001000 1101010001 0101100111 1111110101 011111101010 1001110101 0101101111 01010010101 0011011111 1101010101 11010011101 1101011101 110101 1111 0101100101 0111010101 0101010110 0101110111 0101110101 1001010101 1001010111 0101011111 11011111110 1101110101 0101011101 0111010001 0101110111 01010110101 0101000101 0111010110 0101010101 0101010011 1111100101 1011000101 1101111001 1111011101 1101000101 0111010101 1011010101 0111011101 1111111111 1101011111 10110111101 1101101111 0000110011 01001011111 1111010101 0101100101 0101010111 0101010111 0001011101 0101000111 0111010111 0111110111 0111011110 0101101111 111010011 1011000101 1101100101 1011000101 01010101110 1111110100 0011010101 1111011101 11110100101 11101010101 1101000100 0011010001 1101110101 1111010101 0100111110 01010010110 1100010101 1100010110 1001011111 11111111 01 0100010111 1111111111 1111010101 0101010001 1101010111 0101010001 1001001110 11010111001 0111110101 1111110111 01010100111 0101011101 1101011111 1111111100 1101100101 0100110101 11101011100 1110010001 1101111101 01000111 11 1101010101 0101110101 1101010110 1101010011 01011001001 1111 100101 1000010101 1000010111 1001010101 1100010101 1101010101 0101011101 0101110101 0111010101 1101010111 1100110101 1101010111 1101010111 1101000111 1101000111 11011101010 0101000101 0101010001 0111111101 0101010101 11111100101 11111100101 1101010101 1111010111 11110101010 11011101010 1001000011 1101111101 1101111111 1111110101 1101010100 11010101010 1101010111 1111110001 1101011101 0101011111 1101111101 0111110111 1101011111 0101111111 1111011101 0111111111 1111110101 10101010101 1101111111 1011010001 11010111000 1101011101 1101010111 1101010101 1011111111 1101011101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101011101 0101010101 1001010111 01110010100 1101010111 01010101001 1101011011 1111010101 0101011110 0101011001 0100110101 0111110101 01010101101 1101110111 0100110101 0111011100 1011110110 1101010001 1101111101 0111111101 1111111101 1111010101 1011000001 0101110101 0111010101 0101111101 0101110101 1111010101 1101111101 0101011111 0101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2848
- Average number of words per stanza: 541
- Amount of lines: 206
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, of, but, on, ye, he, his, her, and, it, like, to, thee, nor, ever are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, is, and, tangled, above, nor, what, a are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines names is repeated).
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- summary of Petronilla;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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