This is an analysis of the poem The Dame Of Athelhall that begins with:
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"Soul! Shall I see thy face," she said, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbcXc X dXdbdb X XefXfe X egegeg a XhhhhX a ededed X iXigig X jbjbjb X kekeke j bababX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 10111110011 101110 1010100101 00111001110 101110000 11001110 1 110011111 111000 1111101101 0110110001 010010101 100001 1 10110100110 1111 110010101 001011110 01010010011 110101 1 010010110 1101 110110101 010100101 110010101 10110101 1 10111011110 10111 1111111111 11011111 11010011 1101110 1 1011110111 11101 010101111 11100110101 1100100111 11101101 1 1111110101 1101 0100111101 01110101 1110010101 110001 1 0010110101 1101 10000101011 0100010101 0010111101 1110111 1 1010110110 1111 111110110 110110101 1010101101 1111101 1 10111111111 10110 111111101 00100111001 01110101 11011010
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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