This is an analysis of the poem The Humble Petition Of Bruar Water that begins with:
MY lord, I know your noble ear
Woe ne'er assails in vain;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcX XefeXgXg bebeXebe fXfbheXe ccccdfdf dadXagag aiaijXjX kakacfcf bebeicic hXhdXbjb ldldbcbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111101 110101 01011111 110101 11010101 010101 110011101 1111011 01010101 111101 00110101 110101 01011101 0101110 1101001010 0101010 11111111 110111 10011101 111101 01000111 1111111 11101100 1101011 11010101 010111 11110101 1101001 010110111 110101 11101110 110101 11110101 0111010 11111101 111010 01010111 110111 110100101 011101 010101001 100101 01010101 1101010 01010101 0101110 01010101 0101010 01010101 010001 11010101 100101 11010101 010101 11010101 010101 11110101 110101 01010111 110101 01110111 0100101 11011101 010101 11011101 110111 11010101 110101 11010101 1100101 10110101 110101 11011101 1101100 11110001 110101 110101001 110101 11010101 011001 11110101 110101 011110101 1100101 11110101 0101010 0101000101 11001100
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 98
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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