This is an analysis of the poem The Bleeding Rock: Or, The Metamorphosis Of A Nymph Into Stone that begins with:

Where beauteous Belmont rears her modest brow
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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeccdd Xedce ddddddcc XfaaddXegg bbggaaddeeff ffhheeiieeii hhbbee ddaaii ddff eejkijddddeelleellaabb jjffkkddddeeiihhjjiiiiXfbbllaXXi aabbccffffiimm eXffaabb aaeeaa iiaaccbbiiddjjiieebbiiiiXb jjmmeennllXinneelleeXbbccffeeaalliiiidd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,5,8,10,12,12,6,6,4,22,32,14,8,6,26,39,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101110101 0110010101 1101011101 11100000101 11001010011 1101000101 0111010001 1101011101 1101110101 11010111101 1110110101 0101010101 11110001011 01010010101 10 11010001 1 1 01010101 11001010101 110010101001 11011100101 11010101010 0101110001 0101011101 0101011101 1101010101 1100010101 1101010101 1111110011 11001010101 1101010101 1101010101 01010101010 1011110111 0111110101 0101010101 0101110101 1101110101 1111010101 0101010101 1111000101 0111010111 0101010101 11001010101 0101010011 0111010101 11001010101 1101011001 1100110101 0101010101 01110101001 0101010101 0101001011 1101010101 1101001101 0101010101 0101010101 0110010111 1100101101 11010110001 111101101 11100010101 0101010101 0101011101 1101010101 110010010101 1101010101 11010110111 1100110101 1011010001 1101001101 1101110001 110101001 1001010101 1101110001 1010110111 1111010101 1011110101 1111010101 1111111 1 01 0101010101 1101010001 11011101010 11011100101 0101010101 1101110101 1001010111 1001110101 0101010101 0111010101 0101010101 110100101 1101010101 1101011101 0101010111 1100010101 110101100101 1101000111 0101010101 010100100101 01001010101 1111010101 1101010101 0101010101 1111011111 1101011111 0101111101 0101010011 110101011001 1011111101 11110010101 1101011111 1101010101 0101010111 1111111111 1101011101 1111010101 1101001101 01011111100 1101010011 0101110101 1111110111 1111110011 1101011111 1101110111 1011000101 1101110110 0101010101 1101010111 0101010101 1101010101 1001010111 0101010101 1101001101 0101010101 0101010101 1101010101 1111011111 1101010101 01100010101 0101010101 0101000101 11001010101 1101010100 1101100101 1101010101 0101010101 0111010111 1101010101 0101010101 11011100101 0100010111 1101011101 0100111101 1101011101 0100100101 1101010101 1101010101 1001010111 1011000101 0101111111 01101101 1101010101 1111111101 1111110001 1101110111 1100101101 1101010001 1001111111 0101011111 0101010101 1101010001 1101011101 0101010101 01110000101 1001010001 01000110101 110100101 1101010111 0101010101 1101010110 0101000101 1101110011 11001100111 1101101101 11111100101 0111110001 0111011101 1101010111 1001010101 10111100101 0101011111 1011011110 1101000101 1111000111 1101010101 11010111101 1111000101 0101000101 0101010101 1001010101 1101000101 11010010101 0101010101 1101110101 11010110011 0111011101 10110111001 0111010101 1101010101 1011110101 11010010101 1101110101 0101110101 0101010101 0101011101 0101010101 01010010111 0101110101 0101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 560
  • Average number of words per stanza: 99
  • Amount of lines: 223
  • 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; of, and, her, in, to, no, his, he, here are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words how, the, so, when, and, no are repeated.

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

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  • summary of The Bleeding Rock: Or, The Metamorphosis Of A Nymph Into Stone;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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