This is an analysis of the poem Sir Raymond Of The Castle that begins with:
[The following little Poems are written after the Model of the Old English Ballads, and are inscribed to those who admire the simplicity of that kind... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: X aaaa abXb cada adad baea bfgf dafa cgbg hdXd ihah ijij akak faXa dagX abcX aaaa lklk Xaga bahX akjk gaaa gkck iaga acgc aded iihX gafa hmdX knmX dcfX bcac goho bahX hdiX aaaX ncdc kgfg gmam aaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0100101011010010001101011010110100100011010000 11010101 010101 010101001 110101 11011101 110101 11010101 010101 11110101 110101 11010101 0101001 110010101 11001001 110011111 011001 11011101 1010101 11010111 110111 01011101 100101 11001111 110101 01000101 1101010 01010111 0101010 01010111 010101 010101001 010101 00110101 0100111 01011101 100111 10110001 110101 010010101 010101 01011101 110101 01000111 110101 1011101011 1010101 01011111 010101 110100101 110101 110010101 110101 11011101 010101 110010101 01001100 01010101 1010111 11110111 0101010 10010101 010101 100100111 1101101 01110101 100111 00110101 010101 1011111010 010111 101110111 010101 101110101 011101 11011101 0101010 1101101 001101 010011101 1010101 11011111 110101 11010101 110101 11000101 0101001 10010011 010101 11010101 010101 11011101 111101 10111001101 110111 111001001 010101 1000010101 111101 11001101 011101 101011101 010101 00110111 1101010 10110101 110101 01011101 110101 101011101001 111101 11011101 11110100 101111101 111101 01010101 01010100 101001111 110101 01001101 1101100 11011101 110101 11000101 010101 11010101 110101 01000101 110101 10101110101 111101 10110101 1111010 101111101 110101 01010101 1111111 101110111 111101 11110101 0100111 01010101 100101 11010101 1100001 01010101 110001 101101001 010101 101110101 011101 01111001 011101 101010101 1110001 110101001 1101100
- Amount of stanzas: 40
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 158
- 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; of, her, to, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, the, if, she, nor are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word away at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Sir Raymond Of The Castle;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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