This is an analysis of the poem Lines Written On Leaving Belvoir Castle In 1842 that begins with:

Farewell, fair castle! on thy lordly hill
Firm be thy seat and proud thy station still,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeddXeff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1111011101 1011111101 1101000101 10011101011 10011111101 1001010101 10010011010 11110111010 1101001111 01001011101 1101110111 1111010111 1101110100 1111011101 1101110101 0101001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 706
  • Average number of words per stanza: 126
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; thy is repeated.

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