This is an analysis of the poem Tale Viii that begins with:

THE MOTHER.
There was a worthy, but a simple Pair,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbccddbbeeeffccffccggcchhcchhccccfffffcXgXiicXX XXX XXXXh ddXjXeXjXcce ccchXeeiicchhbacccccch cbbggkkbbhhcciibbeeiiccXeXclllmmeecceejjiiccaXbbhhddhhccffcckkhhbbccccccfXhhhhh hddccggnnffjjccoocceeddccooeennnjjcXddhXiippnnmmiiccccjXiiggnnbbcccchhcchhllnnd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,47,3,5,12,22,79,97,40,13,51,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 010 1101010101 1101010001 1111110101 1001011101 1001010111 11101010101 1111010101 1111000101 0101011101 1101110001 1101010011 1101000100 1101001111 1101010101 1001010011 1111110101 11001011101 1111110101 1011110111 0101000101 1101000101 1101010101 0011001001 1101110101 0101000101 1101110101 0101000101 1101010101 11010011101 1101111101 11010100010 11010010101 0101010111 1101010101 0101000111 010101011001 1101010101 1101010101 1011110101 1111100110 1111110001 11010111100 0101010111 1111011001 1111110001 1111010101 1111110110 10 1111010010010 111111010 1 1101110111 1101011101 11111101001 111111011 1 1111110101 010101111101 1111110101 1101010101 1001110101 0101000101 1111010101 1101111110 1100010101 0101110101 10101011111 01 1101110101 0011111101 1101010101 1101001101 1111010101 1101011001 0101010111 1100110101 1011010101 1101011101 1001010101 0101001111 1101011101 10111011010 1001010101 1011101101 1001010111 1111110101 0101000101 1001011101 0101010101 01 1111001101 0111010101 01011001111 1101011101 01011100001 1101011101 0111010101 0101100101 0101010101 11111100101 1111000101 0101010101 1111011101 0101010101 1100010111 1011011111 1111001101 1111010001 1101010101 11010010101 0101010001 1011000001 0101010110 0111010100 10010101100 01001011101 1111010101 1101000101 101101010101 01110101001 0111010101 1101010111 0101010001 0101011101 1101110101 1111011101 1111010101 0101010001 1101010101 1101011101 0101110101 0111111101 0101000101 01010101010 0001110001 10111101001 10111101001 0111110111 1101110101 11110111101 1101111101 1101010101 0101010111 0101010101 1101010111 0111011101 0101010100 1101010101 1011010101 1101011101 0101110111 0101111101 1011010101 0101011101 0101010101 0101100111 0111110101 1101010101 0101010101 0101011101 1111110101 11100101010 111100101100 11010010101 01001111101 1101011101 1101010101 1101010101 01 111100110101 11101011111 1111110101 01011100101 1101101101 0101011101 1101011101 1101011111 1101011101 0101000101 1011110101 0111011101 0101111101 0011010101 1101110101 00111101001 1010110101 1001011101 10110010101 1101110101 1001010101 01010100101 11010011101 0101010101 1011110101 0101000101 1111011101 1111000101 001101101001 10011000111 10010010100101 1101010101 1101111101 1111000101 0101010101 0111010111 1101010111 1101000101 011111010010 0101011101 0101100101 1001010101 1001010001 1101010101 1101010101 1101010001 1011110101 0101010101 0101010101 01010010101 1001000101 11010011101 1101110101 1101000101 1111110110 0101110101 1111010101 1011011101 1101011101 00110010101 0101010101 1011010111 1111010001 10011110101 1101001001 1101011101 1101010001 1011110101 0101010101 1101010101 0101001101 1100101111001 0101110101 0101000101 1101010101 111100010101 0101010101 0101010101 1101110000 1101011101 0101101101 1111010101 11010011001 1011010011 0101000111 1011111101 1101010101 1101110101 1111111111 1101011101 1111000111 1101010101 0101010101 0101010101 0101110101 11010101011 1 1001001001 1101000101 0101000101 11001110101 1101100101 1111011101 1011010101 1111011101 1011010101 1010010001 110111001001 1101011101 1001000101 1001011101 0101010101 1101011001 1001111111 0101010010 1101010101 1101010101 1001010111 1101011101 1011010101 1101010101 1111010101 0101110101 1001011101 1111011111 0011011111 00101010101 1101011101 1111011111 0101111101 0111111101 1101010101 1101010001 1101011101 1111110101 11011010111 1 0101100101 1101000101 0101000101 1101010101 01001010101 0101010101 01001011101 1101011001 1101010101 10011100100 1101011101 11010110101 00 11110010101 1001010111 110100000101 1001010111 1011011101 0100110101 0111110001 1101010101 1111101001 0101000111 0101110101 1011110101 1001010101 11010001001 01010110001 0011000111 1101010101 10101010101 0101010111 01110010101 0001010111 0110010101 1111010101 1101010101 11010111010 010110001010 1101110101 1011000111 11011100101 01011100111 0101110101 00101100101 0101011101 1101000101 1101010111 01010100111 1001011101 0101110101 1111000101 0101011101 0101010101 1111110101 0011011101 1101010001 1101110111 1101010101 0101000111 1101010111 011010101010 1101000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1446
  • Average number of words per stanza: 259
  • Amount of lines: 370
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; her, and, each, for, to, so, she, ', with, such, one, in, had, your, he, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words heir, she, and, her, lucy's, the, how are repeated.

    The author used the same word remain'd at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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