This is an analysis of the poem The Vampyre that begins with:
Thair is a knichte rydis through the wood,
And a doughty knichte is tree,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXXbdbXeXeXeXXefgXXhcXadaXcgegcXcXXXhfXaXXXhXhXbXXXXXXcbXbeaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 64,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100110101 1010101 111010101 110110 11001111001 1110101 1100110111 1010101 010111011 111111 11110101 101101 11011011 111111 11011111 1011010 1111011 1011111 10010111 0101110 11010101 1010111 111100101 01001010 111011101 00100111 1111001001 110111 11110111 110101001 1110011 110111 11000111 111011 1011111001 1101011 1101011 111011111 111011101 111011110 01111111 1011111 11111001 10101110 11011011 110111 11011101 111101 111100111 111101 01110111 00111110 11110111 11111001 111110111 11011000 111001101 110111 1010100111 1101111 1101111 1100011 01011001 0111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2223
- Average number of words per stanza: 435
- Amount of lines: 64
- 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; hee, passit, they, wood, and, his, i, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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