This is an analysis of the poem It Was An English Ladye Bright that begins with:

It was an English ladye bright,
(The sun shines fair on Carlisle wall)...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBab cbcb cBcb dBdb bBbb aBab cBcb eBeb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 0111011 01111111 111100101 11010101 10110101 11111111 11011111 11110101 010111101 101111111 010110101 11111101 111111111 101111111 111011111 01010101 11111101 01111111 110011111 11110101 11010001 101111111 11011111 11110101 11110101 101111111 111010101 11110101 111101101 01111111 11111111 11110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word all at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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