This is an analysis of the poem La Belle Dame Sans Merci that begins with:
Ah, what can ail thee, wretched wight,
Alone and palely loitering?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABcB AXde ffgf ghXh hbbb heXe afhX Xigi XhhH fdXX XhjHXjBcB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111101 011100100 01010001 1111 11111101 11011110 01010001 10101 11010111 01011101 11110101 11001 11010001 11000101 01110111 10101 11011101 11011111 11111111 0101 11010101 11011101 11111101 1111 11110101 11011101 11010111 101110 11100101 1111111 11110111 1101 111100101 11111101 01011101 10111 11111101 110011011 111011110 11010 11111001 01010101 11011111 10111 11011101 011100100 101010001 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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, and, pale are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words ah, i, she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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