This is an analysis of the poem My Lady Of Castle Grand that begins with:

Gray is the palace where she dwells,
Grimly the poplars stand...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcB defe Xbfb agcg hfhX XdXX XiciXcbbB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 10010111 100101 11010111 1100101 111101001 110101 10011101 101111 1101000101 1001011 1100101101 01100101 1101001011 1101001 100100111 110101 100110101 1101101 10011101 110111 010100100 01001001 1101111111 100111 010011110 1100101 1101101101 1010101 101101111 0100101 1101100111 1100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; blue, her, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words blue, pale, the 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 ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of My Lady Of Castle Grand;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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