This is an analysis of the poem The Eve Of St. John that begins with:
The baron of Smaylho'me rose with day,
He spurr'd his courser on,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaX Xcdc ecXc fgfg chXh XcXc Xiji jaja bdbX eXeh fifi kbkb ekek hceg cici glgl XbdX kabX eaea hcbX edeX eXfX hXea gXbX dabX edhX jahX hkeX dimi Xbdb ekXX ecec hihX XdeX cicX hhch hhXX ibib ckcX hXhm abab hiei fdgX ehXh XllX khmh cece gbgbXabab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 010010101 110101 0111110101 110100 11100110 010101 11110101 010101 101111101011 10110111 1010110011 111111 010010111 10101110 11010101 11101010 11101101 110101 1010110110 111101 110101110 010111 0110100110 1011101 11010100 111111 11101101011 011100 111011011 110011 111111001 1111101 11111111 111111 110101010 101101 1101110101 1110110 101010101 0010101 110100001 011111 101011101 0010101 11011101 1110101 110110101 01101 110111001 1001011 11101111 110101 110011111 0101101 1011111101 1111110 11110111 1010111 101110101 1010101 1110101110 110101 11101011010 111101 110100110 0100101 0110100111 1010011 11011111 111101 101011111001 01101111 11111101 111111 1010111101 0101101 1110111010111 1101010101 110111111011 1101110010 1011011010111 1010010111 1110010010001 1111111 11101110001 1010011110 1101111111 1010011010 1110111011 1111100 111011101011 1111111 10111101110110 0110011 011111110101 111011 1111111101 00100111 11101001111 1110111 11111001011 01011011 101101001011 101101001 111111011 111101 11101111001 1100101 111111101 1110101 111011101 11001000 011011111 011101 1101111010111 1111111 111111011 1101001 1110111101 111011 110010111 1011101 101011101111 111001000 1101111100101 11100101 0010011011101 110101 11010101 110111 101111101 111100 11111101 111101 11110101 1100110 11010101 1100101 110111101 011101 0101111011 11001001 11110100101 1100101 0101011010111 1100111 1101111010101 0101101 0110100101 011101 1010111101 1010011 010110101 10100101 1110100111 1100100 10011011 10101010 101111111 11010101 11011111 0101111 0110111111 11011101 101011111 110111 1110110101 1010101 1110110101 1110011 1111110010110 1111011 11010111 110111 11111111 010101 11011101 111101 11010101 0101100 1101111101 010101 01011101 101101001 01010101 0111101 111011101 0100101 100101010 110101 100101110 110101 11111001 111101 111100101 110110
- Amount of stanzas: 49
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 196
- 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; his, and, he, thou, i, come, not, to, hail, what, news, of, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, his, he, for, 'now, what, it, that are repeated.
The author used the same words 'come, 'by at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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