This is an analysis of the poem William Francis Bartlett that begins with:
Oh, well may Essex sit forlorn
Beside her sea-blown shore;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdXd eaea fgfg hihi fbXb fjfj kkXk acac blbl mdmd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110101 010111 010100101 000111 11001101 0100101 11001000 110101 01010111 010111 01111101 001101 01111111 111110 001100101 010011 110111101 1100111 01010101 010101 01010101 010101 01110101 011111 010100101 111111 010010101 010111 11101101 110101 10110110 001101 01110101 010111 11011101 110011 11011111 110011 11010101 110101 11010101 110101 01110111 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; her, of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, whose are repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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