This is an analysis of the poem Arabella Stuart that begins with:

And is not love in vain,
Torture enough without a living tomb?... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ab a X X c cdcdaaee ffggccffaacchihijjk X ececddllmmggnnbbnn X nnhhnnaoaoaaaaaa X dfXfncncigignngk c kmkmaabbllippbbkk c jjnnaannccaahhcXff mmnnc ececnnaakk X ccmkmkkkaaff X knkn aaXonncc X mkmkkkgg ffg hhaahhocochh hh cXaaeeaall oohhggmm ffffddqq
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,1,1,1,8,19,1,18,1,16,1,16,1,17,1,18,5,10,1,12,1,4,8,1,8,3,12,2,10,8,8,9,13,5,10,9,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 101101 1001010101 10 10011111110 100 1 1101010111 10011101010 111000010111 11010101010 1101010101 1101010101 0101010111 110100101011 1111010101 0101011111 1011111101 01111101001 0001111111 1101010111 1011011111 10011101001 1011011111 1101001101 1110110101 1101001101 10111111110 10010111010 11010111010 10110011110 101010001101 1101110101 0101010 1 1101 0101011101 11110100111 0101010000 1101110101 0011110101 01001111111 1111010001 1001010101 1001100111 1111110011 0011010101 0100010001 1111111001 1111111101 1101110101 1111110111 1011010101 1 1111010111 1110001101 1111110101 1101110101 1001011101 1100010101 10010010111 001010011001 0111010111 0101001111 11011101010 11000101010 1111011111 0011111101 1101110111 1011010101 1 11011100010 1001001001001 111101010010 0111010001 11110101001 0100111101 1101011101 1011010101 11110101110 011110000101 11110111010 11110011001 111111011 0111010111 10110011101 1101011001 1 1001110001 0111010111 1011000101 1111010101 101011111011 1111011101 10111010101 1111011111 0101011101 1001100101 11010 10111 1101011101 1111100111 1110101001 0101010101 1101011101 1 1101110001 00111100111 1100010101 1111010111 1111001101 01111001001 1111111001 1101110101 1011011110 11111101101 0111010101 0111110101 1111000111 10111101001 1111010111 11110100010 0101110101 1101110011 1011010001 0101110101 1011111011 1101010001 111101 1011 11110101111 101011101 111100101011 1101010111 110110100100 10000111110 11011111110 11100100100 11011000101 1 1111111111 1011110101 11011010101 1111010101 1111010001 1011001111 1011011101 1011110101 1000010111 01010011101 110111101 1001010101 1 11010111110 1111011101 101011101010 1011111111 10001111101 01111110110 1011001101 0011010101 1101010111 01001010111 111111101 010111101 1 1101110111 1111011101 0101010111 110111101 0110010111 1011000111 1011010011 10110110110 1111010101 111001001001 1100 1101110111 11110101010 1111010101 11010001001 10010101111 1011010101 1011110111 1101101101 1110010111 1111110111 111110101 1111010001 1001111101 10101110101 1101001101 00110101100 0101110111 1111010101 110010010111 1101100101 1011100101 11001010101 010101100001 1111010101 1101011111 1101000011 1101110101 1101111101 1101010101 0101111111 100100101011 11111100101 1111010111 10011110101 00110010111 11001111101 11110111010 01010101010 1111111111 1111111111 1001011101 1011010101001 0101111101 1001011111 1001111001001 1101010011 11011101101 0111001101 111111 0101 10010110111 0111010101 1101110001 1101110011 1101010111 1100010110 1111110101 1011111011 0101110101 0100111111 0111110101 1101 111101 0101110101 110001011111 1110011101 010100 10101 1001010101 1101110101 10010111101 11010101001 1001010000100 1011010111 0001001101 1001010111 11010 10101 01110010110 0111011101 1111011101 0011111001 1101011101 0101011101 1101000111 1111111100 1011111111 0101110111 1001111011 1101010101 0111110011 11010100111 1011010111 1001110101 1101010001 0101110101 0011100101 0111110111 11010001111 1001001011 0011111001 1100011111 0111011101 111000101000
  • Amount of stanzas: 39
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 307
  • Average number of words per stanza: 57
  • Amount of lines: 285
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, never, it, thou, my, hear are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, that, thou'rt are repeated.

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