This is an analysis of the poem St. Winefred's Well that begins with:
ACT I. SC. I
Enter Teryth from riding, Winefred following.... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: a X a bXcdefbcghiaXjk X lXfcgkacdfmidn X X ldneekXfjojdlkjifdinanjhnijhcXhfffikcXicffhjXomlllghfjlljmjfadhlalfgng X X fnhfgjlhidkdhXkilalcn nhkin nhmgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,15,1,14,1,1,70,1,1,21,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 10100101001000 110011111110111 100111101 111110 1001 1100111110110 1110101001110010 110101 100011 11111 11110001 1001111010 11111011011010 01010111010100 1101110101100 10011 1111111110110 101000 1111010010001 1111010101010 111111011111 01110110010101 10001111011010 11111110111110 110101010110111011 011101111111 11010011110100 11011111110101 01111101000100 1101111100011 00110101010100 110111010101 1010 111001100011100111001001001110100001010 1111110111111 1111001111110010 11011001101 0101010010001 1000110010101 111101111110 10111110001 1111111011111 011111100101 01000111111111 111001000111 111101011111 10101110101 10011110 11101110111011111 101010011101 010101010111 111101100101 110101100111 101011100101 0111111111001 011101 0101011100001110 110011001110110 0101011111101 11111111111 11010010001010 1001110111110 1111111011011 110011110100 1011011100111110 1010111111101 111110101101 01110111111100 1110101101 1001101101010 101000011001 101110111111 00110010100101 100011100111111 11111101101111 101010100110 111010100000100 1111001000111010 1000110101111 1001001111111 1101011011110 100101110111 1010111111 111111001111111 1011101011 10011101010100 011110011101 1111000111011 010111111101111 01100011111101010 01110010111010 101010001111100 1101011111100 11110110100111 1010001010111 011101110101 110101110 0101010011011 1111110111111 111111111111101111 1111011110011 1111111101001 111111011100 1100101111111 1001010101010 10100100011010100100 1011111111111 1101111111010 1111110111010 11111110111011 11110101100111010 11011101001011 100101010001 1101011101110 101011101010 111111011100 110011010110 0111110111111100 00101010001110100 10111111011 101101101111010 101101101101 1100001100010 100101110000 11010110101010 10011101110101 101101111110 1110111110110 11011001101010 1111110001110110 110110 1101011110010 111101111101110 111111101010 01110111000101000100 11
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 628
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 142
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, met, and, them, more, of, what, warned, her, thee, never, it, not, done, no, this, all, while, water, pilgrims, as, sure are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, while 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.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines i, revenge, repent, find are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word i 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 words/phrases i, still, what, there connect the lines.
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