This is an analysis of the poem Lord William that begins with:
No eye beheld when William plunged
Young Edmund in the stream,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab aacX Xded deae ebfb XfXf dbcb aege chih cjXj feae chdh hbab dcXc baXa dXkd lakX Xece bXcf feme mhah aXie ceae CbjB ajcj ebjB bdid mjej ibdb bada aaaa Cgag alfl cafaXibeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11101101 110001 11011101 110101 01010101 0100111 11010101 010100 01010100 110101 11010101 110011 11001101 110101 01000101 011111 11011101 011101 010011101 111101 011101010 1101001 0100101001 110101 011101010 110101 10011101 010001 01010101 111101 11010111 110101 1101100111 010101 11010111 010101 01110101 010101 111101000 110101 01011101 110101 10110101 110101 01110101 0111001 11010101 010001 01010101 010101 01111101 0101001 01011111 010111 11011101 011101 01110101 110101 11111101 110101 11110111 0111001 01010101 110101 11100101 110101 11011111 111110 110111100 010001 11010101 110001 11010101 010110 11110101 010111 11010101 110101 01111111 110111 11010111 010101 11000101 111101 11010101 0100110 11010101 110111 11010001 110101 11011101 111101 01010101 110101 10110101 110101 01011011 011001 11010101 110101 11111101 110101 01110101 110101 11011001 010101 11010101 111101 11110111 110101 11101101 010101 11000001 010101 010100101 011101 01011101 111101 110100101 110101 11011001 010111 01011101 110101 01010101 010101 01110101 111101 11110101 110111 01110101 010111 11010111 111111 11110001 0100111 011101001 0100101 11111101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 35
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 140
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, haste are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, in, he, haste are repeated.
The author used the same words in, a, he, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines erlingford, walls, scream are repeated).
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- summary of Lord William;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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