This is an analysis of the poem Gilderoy that begins with:
THE smith who made the manacles,
With bar and bolt, and link and ring,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX XaXX babXXaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110100 01111111 11010101 111111000 11010111 010110101 11010111 111111000 01110101 11011001 1111101111 111111000 11110111 11111111 01111111 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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