This is an analysis of the poem A Loose Saraband that begins with:
I.
Ah me! the little tyrant theefe!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbab Xcdcd XdXeX Xedfd aXdXd acdXd XggdX Xhdhd XXdad XXXfg aXgdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11010101 1111110 11011101 1011110 1 10010101 1100010 11110101 1011110 1 11010101 1101110 01010101 1101100 1 11011101 1100010 011100111 1110110 1 11000110 1100010 11010100 1101010 1 11001101 0101110 111110010 1101110 1 11010111 111111 1101011 01110100 1 11010011 111001 10011001 111111 1 11000010 1111010 10010001 1111110 1 11110101 1001010 10011101 100101 1 11011011 011101 11001001 1101100
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; it, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word it at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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