This is an analysis of the poem Fridolin (The Walk To The Iron Factory) that begins with:

A gentle was Fridolin,
And he his mistress dear,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabaccXd bebeXfcX bebegghh hchccccc XijikkaX clclaabX dbdbkXbX cmcXXXXX XbhbXXlX eXeniimX cjcjcclX ccccllkk lalaXdlX chchhhaa ifiXccaX XhmXhhlX XbbbaafX cncnaahh bXbcmmaa lhlXcccX Xlalhhee mlmfddhh bhbhnnhh blblhhlf iciXnncX hfhlXmXX hlhlaabX dldXbbcX lcl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 0101100 110101 10110100 111101 11111110 11100101 11110010 01010100 001101111 110101 11110001 1110111 1011101010 01110100 10110101 110111110 11010101 0101011 10110101 1101011 11011101 01011011 01110101 01011101 10010101 11001010 01111101 0101010 11011101 01010101 11010111 10010101 1001111010 110011 1011010001 110101 01011101 11000101 01000101 0101000100 01010111 1001101 11110101 100101 010010111 11011111 11101101 010101100 0101101001 010111 11011101 010101 10010101 1101010100 1001000101 1011001010 101010101 101101 11010101 1101010 1010101110 01010100 1010111000 1001110110 1011101110 110011 01111111 1101001 101001111 11111110 11010101 1101010000 100011011 0100100 100010111001 0010101 11010111 11010101 101101111 111101010 000100111 010101 10010101 011101 01010101 010111101 01110101 10010101 010110111 110101 01110111 010111 011100111 01010101 11000101 01010101 10110101 111001 11110111 101001 11011111 11100101 10010111 1101011100 001010101 010101 11010101 111011 11000101 01011111 100100101 01010101 11000111 010100 101111101 1111010 01010011 111010101 10010101 0111111000 010101010 1101101 11110101 10101110 10010111 100010101 11111111 111110010 00010010 010101 101010111 111111 11111111 10110101 10111100 111101110 10010101 110101 11010111 010101 01011101 00110101 110010101 01000100 100010101 10011110 11110001 111111 11010111 10010101 11000101 01000101 01011101 110101 101011100101 11001010 01010101 11011101 01010101 11010100 110101010 100111 10000101 010101 11111111 11010101 11010101 01111101 11011101 011001 10010101 001100 01000101 100101001 11111101 10010101 01111101 011101 11101101 1101000 10001101 10100010 101010101 10110101 11011101 011101 11010101 111101 11000111 10010101 10010100 11000100 11110101 110101 1011100111 100001100 10110100 11000101 101110111 010100100 01000111 010100 11010101 110101 1000111010 10001001011 1011011000 10101111100 101101101 110101 11011111 001101 11110101 11000111 111100101 1001011100 01010111 1100111 101010101 1101110 100011100 10010001 11110111 010100100 1010010101 110111 101111001 1110010 101000111 1101011000 1001010111 10101001110 01010111 111101 10010101 111101 101110101 11001111 111101001 1101110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 30
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 282
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 240
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, and, his, i, he are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase confess connects the lines.

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