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  • Rhyme scheme: ab cdcda a e X e fgghfhgighggihXeejjgghhffakelcecmlemhhXcacciXnKccdccggXhmmdaabbeeggbbcccgG dddcoccoaoXmmaaakaXddX bbhbhbppgGccddmmggccahhafggggfaegaaegkoakXmbmbddaaggmmccXcaaaggXX nggnh dffdhhhdbbdhddqggdhXhaKccggmggcnniiciiggccggmamaddggqqmmaka mmbbhXmm
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,5,1,1,1,1,74,22,65,5,59,9,45,10,6,4,7,57,2,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,2,46,39,8,1,5,33,26,32,16,21,18,16,59,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
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1011101 1110101 1011101 10001010 1011101 1010101 10010100 010010101 101101010101 0111011101 0111010001 1111111101 1101111111 1111110001 0101010011 1101110101 10 1110101 11011111 1010001 1010111 11010011 11011101 01010100 01010011 01010100 1100011 01010101 11011111 0010100 110011111 01100101 010101011 01010101 11011111 1110101 10100101 11100101 1010101 0111111 1010011 0111011 0010100 11010111 1010111 0010101 1010111 11001101 0110101 0110111 101101011101 1001100101 1001000111 0101010101 1111010011 1111011001 1111111001 11010100111 1101100101 11011110111 1011010011 10 1110001 1011111 010000011 11100111 01010111 11010101 1011101 1111111 1111111 010010100 1001111110010 0101010111 0101111101 1110010101 1101111001 01111111010 1111111111 1101000111 1001110111 1101010100 1101111111 0111110011 0111111100 1101011011 1111111111 0101011101 0101 11011101 110011 11010001 11010101 11010101 10010101 01100101 01110101 01011101 011100 1101101 11110011 1110101 11010011 1010101 11010101 001011101 110011100 11110011 11101111 01010111 11010101 11110111 10110011 010101100 11110111 10110101 10110101 1010100 110100101 11010100 110010101 10110101 010101 01111001 111111 11010111 10110101 01110101 01010111 01011111 110011111 01010101 101100101 01111111 110001101 11110101 110101001 0010111 01110111 10111101 00010100 11111101 111011001 1100101001 11000111 11110011 1101110111 1100111101 1 100100 101011111110 111111101 1110111110 111010110 1011111001110 111111101 1100111001 111111111 101110111011 111011101 1111111110 111011111 1010111010110 111110101 1011111010 111110111 101011100110 101011111 1111111110 111010111 1011100101110 111111101 1111111010 111111111 101110111110 111001001 1111100011 101110111 101111001101 101111111 1110111010 111001101 101111111010 101001101 1111101111 001111101 101010101011 111010001 1010111010 101011101 1111101010 111010101 1110101110 101010101 1010111110 111011101 101001001010 101011101 1110111010 1010100101 1010110110 101010111 1110111110 111010111 1111101010 111111101 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10111101 11110101 11110101 11010001 01011101 10011101 11001111 10110101 11010111 11010101 11010101 11100101 01011101 01110101 11011101 01011101 01010101 11110111 11101101 110100101 11111101 10011111 11011101 11010111 111100101 01110001 01110101 11111101 11110001 11010101 110100101 11011111 11111101 1111101 11111111 010001 1 100100 01111100101 0101011101 0111001001 1001111101 0101010111 1101010011 00110010001 1100110101 11000010101 0101011101 1011010111 0101011111 1001010101 0111010111 1101111011 01011100101 01011011111 1001011100 00110001001 1101111101 1001010101 010101001101 10010010101 1001011101 11010010111 0101111001 0101111111 0101011101 1011110011 0111010101 1011010111 1101110111 1001010011 01010100101 1101000101 1010010111 1011110100 1011010111 1001000111 1001111100 1101101101 1111110111 1111100101 1111011111 01010010101 1101010111 1111010101 1011110011 1001110111 1001111101 001011101001 1001011101 1101010101 1001010111 0111010101 1111110111 1111110101 1101110111 1011000101 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  • Amount of stanzas: 59
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 521
  • Average number of words per stanza: 96
  • Amount of lines: 797
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; her, iseult, to, his, let, here, in, this, dreams, she, far, of, and, what, i, thou, thee, tristram, their, nor, so, they are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words tristram, a, iseult, let, gave, the, and, in, his, hither, to, she, what, both, i, so, at, that, for, of, nor, which, who are repeated.

    The author used the same word ah at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase tristram connects the lines.

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