This is an analysis of the poem Peggy's The Lady Of The Hall that begins with:

And will she leave the lowly clowns
For silk and satins gay,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababacXcdD eeeXdfdfggXaeaeececdD
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,21,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110101 111101 01010111 110101 10110111 010101 10110111 111001 10110111 00010001 01011101 011111 01100111 011101 11010111 110101 01011101 110101 11110111 11110101 11011101 011101 10110101 111001 01000101 110101 11011101 100101 01110101 00010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 319
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.

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  • history of its creation;
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