This is an analysis of the poem The Vision Of The Maid Of Orleans - The First Book that begins with:

Orleans was hush'd in sleep. Stretch'd on her couch
The delegated Maiden lay: with toil... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdeefghcX ijjdkdcdlbmnjclcecicefccccekdejcj lgcmbd bodonccf cepdednemmbnoc nenXfjlmX cadcdceocdkmd cbjcjddefqjccpnnbemmbjddbgnrsjeXinjjecljcjrieiglnmd nsenbjjalpkjimbXXXnbjcjloXpfgdXoftlXncceclcXcljhcjejdsuenvnXnsnteep vdrwdXieljednp ndjgdidXjoXlbefopjX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,33,6,8,14,9,13,51,67,14,114,20,13,17,22,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10011011101 0101010101 0101110111 0101111001 1101000101 010101010010 1101010111 0101010100 1101010101 111101001001 1111011 0101 1011111100 11010010101 11010000101 0101111101 0111010001 11101010101 11001110101 1001010101 1101010100 1101010101 1101011101 0111000101 1111010101 11001100101 1101010101 0101100111 1101010111 1101010001 11010100111 101101001010 0111011101 00101001101 110101 0101 1101011111 1011011101 1010110101 10011011111 0101110101 1101110111 1001010101 1101010101 01001011111 1011011100 1101011001 1001110101 11000111001 01010 101001 10110100101 1001011101 1101010011 10001110101 1101010101 01011101001 1111010101 110101101 0101101111 11001110001 110101111 1110110111 10110100110 1101111101 01011111001 1100011101 0101010101 0111110111 0101011101 1011011001 0101010001 1001110101 0101010011 1100011111 11010011100 111010001 0100010101 110101001001 1101011101 1101001101 1101011101 0101010111 1101011101 0001010101 1001010101 10001010101 10010101001 01111111001 1101110101 01010101010 1101010101 110001101 110101 0111 01011001001 1101010101 1101011101 1101011101 110011 1101 1011011101 1011010101 1111010111 1010011101 010001 11011 1011010101 1101001001 1100010011 0101110101 11010111001 1011010101 1100011111 1101011111 1011010111 1011110111 1101110101 0011011100 1101010100 01010011101 1101010001 1000010101 1101100101 1111110001 1101010 1101 0101100101 1101110101 1011010001 1101110001 1111110101 1101000101 1101011101 11010011101 010101 0111 0111110101 11110010001 10010111001 0101000100 1001110011 1101110101 1101100101 0100011101 11001011101 1111011101 1101111111 1101100100 1111010111 1011011101 1101010101 1101010101 01010100101 1101010101 11010101001 1101110101 1101011101 11010111111 1111010101 1101010100 0101010 100 0111110111 0101010100 100010100111 0111110101 11110101111 010011101001 1111110101 01110001110 100011110001 0100010101 0011100100 1111011001 110111100 0101101111 1110010001 1101010011 0101111101 01010 011100 11011001001 0101010111 1001010101 11011100100 0101110101 11110100101 0101110 0101 11110010001 0111110001 0101011101 11110001001 0101010101 01110100101 1101011111 0001010101 1101110101 1101000101 1101011101 0111011111 11000101110 0101011101 1101110110 010011001001 10001000101 10010101001 11001011111 01000010101 11010010101 1111011001 11010111010 0101010111 1001010001 1101010001 1101010 101 1101010101 0101011110 0101010001 1101001111 010101010010 1101110001 11010101100 0101011101 1111010101 01010010101 0101011101 1001100100 1111010101 1101010011 010011000010 0001110100 0111110 101 01000111000 0111010111 1011010011 0101110101 1101010011 0111110101 1111111111 11111010001 11010 11101 1101011101 100010100111 101011100101 0101110101 01010 11101 01011100100 1001011101 1101001101 1111111101 0101011111 0101010101 11110101101 1101110011 1111000111 0101000101 0111011101 0111010011 1001000111 01010001010 1111110100 0111010101 01110111111 01001000111 0101111101 1111011101 010110 10111 110100100101 11110100101 0100010100 10011101010 1101010101 11001011101 110101100011 1100110101 1001010100 10001100101 1111011101 1100010100 1111010001 0101001111 01110101110 1111110101 11100111011 0110001101 1111110101 11010100111 11001011101 1111011111 1111010111 1101010101 010100 0101 1100111100 1101110011 1001011101 1101000101 1101011101 00101010 1101 1100110101 1111011101 1101000101 1101010101 1101110111 1100011111 10010101001 1001011101 00101111101 1100 0101100 01011100110 01001010101 0101010101 0100011101 0101111111 1100010101 01011100101 0011001 1101 1001010111 1001011101 0111011101 1101010101 0101110101 110111 1101 01010111001 1101110101 0101110111 1111010111 110110011001 1100010101 1111100101 10011111001 1101010001 1101010101 0100010110 1101101101 1101011101 1101010111 100110010101 0101010101 0111110111 0100110101 1101010101 0101010011 1001011101 1101110101 0001000101 1101010101 01000100111 0101010101 0001110101 1011011101 11110010101 0101010101 10110010101 1101010001 1101001001 1001110011 01011110101 1101001 0101 10011100010 01011101010 10111 1101010110 0101011101 0101000101 0101111000 0011010111 0101110101 01010101011 11001011101 00101110111 1001000100 01010010001 0101100101 1100010101 1001111101 1011001101 110111111001 010101110010 11110111110 01010101001 01010010101 0101011100 1100111101 10010001001 1100100100 1100010101 010100101001 1001011101 1001001101 1111010100 110010111101 0101000101 0111001110 0101111011 0111110001 0001110101 0111010010 1101010110 1111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1144
  • Average number of words per stanza: 202
  • Amount of lines: 412
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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, her, now, his, these, thy, of, as, that, to, my, i, its, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, as, where, that, had, the, a, of are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines soon is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase dark connects the lines.

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