This is an analysis of the poem Madeline. A Domestic Tale that begins with:

My child, my child, thou leav'st me!–I shall hear
The gentle voice no more that blest mine ear... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcdeeffccgghhiiddffiX bbffhhhhff jjkkaahh bXbbcdcdddeelblbihhi dmbbhhffddhhXhbbgghh ccmmhhgglleennhhXfaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,10,8,20,20,20,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 111111111 0101111111 00110011101 01110101001 1111011101 1111110101 1001111101 1011010101 0111011101 1111010111 0011010011 1111110101 1001010011 111100101001 0111011101 1111001101 1100101111 1110111101 1011010101 11110011101 0101011101 11110010111 11111100011 010101110000 0101010001 0111111101 1100010101 0101110101 1101011101 00111100111 1101010111 1101001111 110011100101 1011010101 1011111101 1011010101 0011110011 1101110101 1001110101 1101000111 1111010111 01010100001 1011110101 11010101010 0011110101 1101110101 01001010011 0101111110 0111010101 1101110101 1111010101 10010100001 1101110001 0011000101 1001010101 01010100111 1111110111 10011111001 1011010011 10111000111 1011011101 1101010101 10010101010 11111101010 011101111 01011101111 01000111101 01110001001 0101010101 1111011111 1011010101 0011011101 00110111001 0101010111 0101111111 00111001111 0100110101 10101100101 01011111001 1101011101 10111101001 1001000101 1011110101 1111111100 111011001110 10010101010 10011101001 1001010111 00010111001 01110111001 0111010111 1011000101 0101010101 0111011101 1101011101 1011110101 1101010101 1101110011 11010010101 0111111111 11110000101 11010111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 791
  • Average number of words per stanza: 143
  • Amount of lines: 102
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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, with, her, of, strangers, that, not, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the 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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