This is an analysis of the poem Douglas Of The Bleeding Heart that begins with:
Earl Douglas, don thy helm so bright,
And buckle thy sword with speed,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcX bebe cfXf bgbh XhXh aeaX bibi aaaa bbbX bXbX ahah jhjX hchc bkbk adad bbbb aaaa cacX ahag eheh kkkX bbbb hXgc lmlm abab kcXc mlml ieieXeaea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011111 1101101 11110101 1101101 111100101 1101010 110010111 1101010 111101011 110111 11110101 11100101 1101101101 01110010 11010100 101110110 110011101 1110100 111101101 1111011 11010100 110111 11010100 1010111 111110111 11101001 0010101101 101010 110111111 1100111 01111100101 1110101 111111101 1111001 11010111 11010001 11110101 1100101 1110110101 1010010100 101011101 1010110 1101100101 111111 11010101 110101 01010101 111101 11011101 110111 01100111 1100111 100011101 110111 110100101 1100101 010101011 10101011 010111101 11101001 010111111 11001010 1100110101 11001110 010110111 01111001 111101101 00111001 110101001 1101001 1011011001 11011001 01010101 111111 101111111 100101 01010101 010101 01000111 110100 11110101 111111 101011111 011001 11110101 1101101 11110101 010101 110110011 110111 11010101 111101 11010101 000110 11010100 110111 11010011 011101 11111111 011101 01010111 1111001 1101100111 00101111 1010011111 001001101 1011100101 1100101 010101101 1110111 1101100101 1100111 11100101 1100111 00110101 1010101 111110111 1100101 110011111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 31
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 121
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; thy, and, my, to, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, ten 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.
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