This is an analysis of the poem The Conqueror that begins with:
I will go now where my dear Lady is,
And tell her how I won in this great fight;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab c XcX de de dad a bfbf X dgdg a eae gX gX dcd c aeaX dhXh b Xdbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,3,2,2,3,1,4,1,4,1,3,2,2,3,1,4,4,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011111100 1101110011 1111110100 1101011101 1011110101 1101110101 1101111001 111101110 1101110101 1101010101 1101011101 1001110111 1111111111 1111101101 0101011100 01010010101 1111010101 10011011001 1111110101 1111111101 1 1101110111 1111110101 1111110111 1111011101 1111010101 1111010111 1111111101 1101010101 1111111101 1011011100 1101110101 1100110100 1111111111 0110110101 0101110101 1011110101 1111011111 0111111111 0111110011 1101010100 1111011111 1001110101 1101011000 11111111101 1111111101 1111111101 0100111101 1101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; of, i, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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