This is an analysis of the poem Madeline that begins with:
O lady! if, until this hour,
I've gazed in those bewildering eyes,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdcecefcfcdcdcfgfgbbhfhfcceeiijfjf jejebbcceefdfd kekecjcjcceeeehhlhhlbbbjaaj ggccmmXmmmmmhhcceemmnnbbohho
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,14,27,28,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110001010 110101001 110111010 11111111 01101111 11010011 11111111 0111001 11111111 010011101 1001110011 11110111 11110101 11010101 01011111 100110101 11111101 01010111 01011101 11110001 11011111 11010101 11011111 11110011 01010111 11110101 11111101 11110111 11110101 01010101 11011101 01110111 01110111 11110001 11111101 01111111 10110101 10110101 111110001 011101 11111101 11111111 11111111 110101 11110110 11110011 11101101 111101101 11111101 11110111 110101111 01011110 11110101 111101 101101010 0110101001 1101101010 11010101 11010101 11110101 11011111 11000111 11010101 11110111 11010101 011111010 01010101 1100101110 11001101 11010101 11110101 11110001 11110001 110101 10111001 01010101 111100101 11110101 110101010 010101010 11110101 11011101 10011111 11111111 01110101 11111111 11111101 01110100100 11011001 11110111 11110101 11111101 11010101 11010111 11111111 11110101 11111101 11011101 01111101 11111111 111100101 01111101 01010101 11101111 01001101 000101 11111111 11111111 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 959
- Average number of words per stanza: 182
- Amount of lines: 109
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; i, as, that, how, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, as are repeated.
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- summary of Madeline;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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