This is an analysis of the poem Christabel that begins with:
PART I
'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbXbcddbbeeff bbaaggaaaXghhXhaa bcbXaa iXagaajbjgbgkkaa XGbbj hhkkjejjaai XX hhllXXhhkkXkhhffhhaamlnbnbbhghgaX fkfXiXaX hhhXhgoaoiX Xghhhhkkhhkk JEffkXkXJE ffbbdgXXd ggppqqaaggXXjjjqqojkj jjaihkhkhqqhchckkmm aXakgagaXX akXkaiakaX fcfXcXbhbhaX baXbgagaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,13,17,6,16,5,11,2,33,8,11,12,10,9,21,19,10,10,12,9,4,16,12,12,23,9,21,1,6,22,10,17,10,6,28,16,16,13,19,5,21,45,19,14,16,23,20,1,24,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11 10100110101 10110100101 1111 11010101 110001 1100101 1010101 00100101 1010001 11010111010 101111110 01111101 11111101 0011011 01010111 01110111 01011101 010011101 11111111 01010101 1001010101 1001110101 01010100 1010111 11000111 01100101 1111100 0011001 110011101 10100101101 11011101 01110111 11110101 11110101 11010111 1010101 01011100 01010100 01111110 11001101 101010100 001110111 01010101 00011101 101101001 01010101 0010101 10110101 011101001 1101101101 101111011 10101111101 11010100 10010101 110010101 1100101001 1111 1110101 10010101 110000111 01111111 01011101 0110110000 11010111 01010001 111110101 010110111 1000100 1010111 11001111 01011101 1011111 11011101 11111100 11111111 1100110110 1010111111 01010101 110000101 1110001 110011100 11010101 11110111 11110101 01011111 111100001 11101101 11110101 111101101 11111110 11111100 11110111 11010001 1100101 01010101 11010111 11110101 11110101 10111101 11111101 1100101 11111101 11010101 11001101 11001001 11111101 0100110 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11010111 01110100 11111101 01110100 10110101 11010101 11010101 11011111 11011101 00101101 11010101 1010110011110 001001001001 11010101 11000111 100111001 01000101 11110101 01010100 010010111 111101101 11011011 11011101 01111101 01111101 1100100101 10011101 110110111 011001111 01011101 10011101 11000101 10010111 11010001 110111001 1111 0101 11110101 01010101 11010101 111111001 11110101 11110001 11010101 110011110 101111010 11001101 10110111 11010101 1001010 1 1111110 110010101 11010111 11110101 11011111 01111111 11110101 110010101 110011101 01110101 111110101 1101110110 110111001 11011100 11110101 11011011011 11110111011 1111101001 111101101 110010111 1100100111 11011111 11110101 01110001 11110101 11011101 01010001 10110101 11110101 11011001 11110101 01001010 111101011 10010111 11110101 110010100 01011101 01100011000 1100101001 010111010 111100100 11011111 11110101 01110110 11011101 11110101 01110110 11010011 10111111 11011111 11111101 1101101 1001100101 01011001001 11111111 11011101 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11010101 010101001 11010101 11011101 111100101 11000111 011110 11010001 0010011 01010101 1010001 01010111 11111101 11010001 11010101 110101111 01011111 11010111 01010100 0111001010 11101110 010110101 010011111 011101110 11110101 010101110 11000101 110111001 11000111 11010111 11101101 01
- Amount of stanzas: 50
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 479
- Average number of words per stanza: 90
- Amount of lines: 683
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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, she, her, that, me, from, ', now, lamp, of, dreaming, tu, whoo, as, christabel, he, your, i, thy, so, for, his, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, her, he, and, what, again, thy, that, his, dishonored, to are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dark, ', christabel, died are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases there, fearfully connect the lines.
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- summary of Christabel;
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