This is an analysis of the poem Rich And Poor that begins with:

By the castle-gate my lady stands,
Viewing broad acres and spreading lands.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd Xb aa ee ff gg dd hh ee ii gX ii ee jj aa ee gg kkXff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101011101 101101101 11101111 110101101 0010011101 010100101 1010100101 1100100101 110010100 110101101 1100101101 110100111 1010010101 1010010111 101011101 11011111 010000101 110100101 110110101 10100101101 1100110101 1110010101 010101101 110101101 1010101111 110101101 1101101101 111101100 100100101 1010111101 001010111 11100110111 1110100100 0011101101 11010101 10010111 111010011 101111101 111100101 1010001101 1110111111 0101001011 110011101 01101101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 79
  • Average number of words per stanza: 15
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; and, or, her, as, their are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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