This is an analysis of the poem Rosabelle that begins with:

O listen, listen, ladies gay!
No haughty feat of arms I tell; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab caXa dada caXa ebeb fbfb dgdg hXhX fafX fbfb aeae fbfb ebXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11010101 11010111 10011101 11010100 11011101 11010101 11010100 11010101 010010101 01110111 010110101 11011101 11010101 01111101 11110100 11010101 110111001 01110101 11110101 11000101 11010111 110010111 111100101 01111100 11011101 01011101 110101101 11010111 01110101 01010111 11010101 11010100 111101101 11011001 11010101 10010100 111100101 11001101 110010101 11010111 11001101 110011101 11111101 01010111 1110010101 110011101 11010111 101110100 11111101 01001101 1011110111 01010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, blazed are repeated.

    The author used the same words tis, seem at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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  • summary of Rosabelle;
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  • history of its creation;
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