This is an analysis of the poem Praise Of Ysolt that begins with:
In vain have I striven,
to teach my heart to bow;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcX XdXXdefgddXeXece hg ABcX aegX iigXXeX XgXXiXiX XahbgggiX fBXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,16,2,4,4,7,8,9,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011110 011101 0111101 1010101011 1010101111100 101100101 1101111010 101 1101011100011 101001 1111001 1010001011111 11110101 11001000110011 1101111001 1011110101 101111001 1011110101 0111111100011 10111101001 111111111 11111011 011110 011101 0111101 1010111 100101011010 11110 1011001 101 1001100111101 1011001 11101110111 111101 1101 101111001111 111101101 111101001000101 01011001011 10101 10111001 111010011101 1110010111101101 101001 1010101 111111 1111010101 110110001 10010101 10111001001 111001010101 011011 1110101 101 011110011 011101 1110 100111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 228
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 58
- 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; to, as, words, song, woman are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words little, as are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines song' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words ', song' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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