This is an analysis of the poem The Nut-Brown Maid. A Poem. that begins with:

Written three hundred years since.
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  • Rhyme scheme: a XXbXXXcXdcecfXXgaXXghcXcXiXXXXfX cXcac cXbXajbdaXXXC cddfXfXXdXcdC cXcfcfXdckcXC cXXXXlXeXdcdC cfXXXdXgXfXXC cXXXfXfXffcdC cXjmjhjXjdcXC cdXeXkXXXdcDC cfklXknkXcXC cXXfXXXdXXcDC cfXXXiXXXhcXC cXXXXXXXXXcDC cXXdbiaXXXcXC cXXXcXXbXXcDC cX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,32,5,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,12,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011001 001111101 110110 10001100 011101 010111001 110110 11011111 110010 11011001 111101 100111001 1001001 11111111 001111 11010111 110001 110011010 101101 11111100 010111 10011001 110101 11011001 1101101 11011010 111010 01011110 110111 11101110 111110 100111010 111111 1 11011111 110111 100111001 1101001 10 11111010 001101 10010101 111111 01111001 1100001 11011101 110001 11110111 111110 10110110 111101 1 01010101 1001111 11000101 010111 110010110 110111 10101110 111011 100101111 110111 11100111 0101001 10 11100101 110101 11010101 0100101 11111111 110111 111110111 011111 111101011 111101 10110110 111101 1 11100111 110110 11001101 010111 11101111 100110 11111011 110001 11111111 1100111 11100111 0101001 10 11111101 010011 11010110 111111 10011111 111110 110010111 100110 11101111 110010 10110110 111101 1 11110101 111111 01110101 110101 11011010 011101 11110110 110101 10111111 011110 11100111 0101001 10 10010111 111001 10011111 010011 11111101 001001 01011100 011101 11111111 110111 10110110 111101 1 11010101 001101 10011011 010110 11110111 111001 11011111 100111 01011111 111101 11100111 0101001 10 11111111 001101 11111111 01110111 0111001 11111100 111111 010101011 111101 10110110 111101 1 11100001 111111 101101 110001 11111110 110111 11111111 111110 111011010 001101 100100111 0101001 10 11111100 110101 11010001 001101 10111110 0100111 11101101 010111 11011101 01101 10110110 111101 1 111111011 111110 010100110 010101 01011111 111101 11011101 101111 11111110 1111001 11100111 0101001 10 11110100 010111 11101011 011100 11110110 110000 111111011 111110 01111110 110101 10110110 111101 1 1111011100 111101 111100101 1111111 111010110 10111 110111011 0101111 1111011 111111 100100111 0101001 10 010111110 111111 11110010 10111 11010010 101101 01011111 011111 10110111 110110 10110110 111101 1 11011111 111101 11111111 110101 11011010 1100110 10110110 011111 11111010 1010111 101100111 0101001 10 11111111 1100100 01110101 010101 1111001110 111111 11101101 110111 10111111 011101 10110110 111101 1 11111111 111111 11000001 01111 11111101 0100100 1110101000 010100 001011111 110010 100100111 0101001 10 11111011 1100111 111111100 0111011 11110100 010101 11111111 0100101 11011110 011110 10110110 111101 1 010100100 00011 00100110 010110 11000110 010101 11110101 111101 100110001 011111 01100111 0101001 10 1010101101 001111 11111111 111110 010111111 111111 01100110 110111 11101111 110101 10110110 111101 1 11111101 100101 11101001 111111 0101011010 110110 10111101 110111 00110101 111111 100100111 0101001 10 10011100 110100 10110111 111001 11111111 11010010 10101111 1010110 11111101 111011 10110110 111101 1 11111101 110111 01110111 0111011 010110111 010101 10011111 111101 0101101011 011101 11100111 1111001 10 110001101 100101 11011101 100101 11111011 010101 11111010 111111 10011101 111110 10110110 111101 1 11111001 111010 11011101 011010 11000100 101100 11111001 11010 11111101 110111 11111101 1101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 29
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 358
  • Average number of words per stanza: 74
  • Amount of lines: 403
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, you, ye, for, and, your, be are repeated.

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

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