This is an analysis of the poem Gertrude, Or Fidelity Till Death that begins with:
Dark lowers our fate,
And terrible the storm that gathers o'er us;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXbXdd c efef egeg eheh fhfh ibib hXhX haha djcj kfkf flfl haha ahah mamaXgaga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011 110001110101 1101110100 1101010110 011101011101 000101011 1101000110 1100011 01010 01010111 011101 10010111 111111 01110111 0101001 01110001 010101 11111011 110111 00110111 111101 10111101 110111 01011001 101111 110010110 010101 1101001010 010110 111100111 111101 11011001 111101 10111101 010101 111101001 110101 11010101 010101 11010100 110111 01110001 011111 011110101 010101 11110001 010101 11001101 110101 11011001 001111 11010111 110111 110101001 110101 11011101 111111 11011111 010001 11010101 101101 111100101 111111 11010111 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; her, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, she are repeated.
The author used the same words and, she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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