This is an analysis of the poem Jerusalem Delivered - Book 02 - Part 02 that begins with:

XI
But when the angry king discovered not...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbbbbbcX XdeXedeXXXcXcfcfgX XhXhghgee Xbhbhbhee XibiXibgX XXfbfXfgg Xdgdgdgff XggggggiX Xajajajff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,18,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 1101010101 1101010011 01001010101 0101011101 1101010101 0101111111 1001101110111 11001010110 1 10101010101 1101000101 01011101110 0101010101 0111001111 111111010 11101101101 110111011100 1 0101110101 01010100110 0101101101 1101110101 1111010110 0101011101 1101011111 11111111010 1 01010101110 01111111010 0101010110 0101010101 01010100010 01010101111 1101010101 01010101001 1 1101010101 1100101000010 1101110111 01011001110 1101010111 11011101110 0101010111 1101110001 1 01001100101 1111101101 1111010011 1111010101 1111110101 1111111111 11111111010 01011001000 1 0011000100 0101011101 1111011111 1111110101 11001110100 0101111101 11010101101 110100011101 1 1111011101 1011111101 0101011001 0101010101 1100010101 11001110101 11010111001 11011101011 1 01001110101 0101000111 1111011101 1011010101 10100111001101 11001110101 1101110111 01111111110 1 0011011101 101101101 1101010101 101110101 1101011101 011100111 1101011101 01010110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 415
  • Average number of words per stanza: 72
  • Amount of lines: 90
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; he, with, their, to, her, by, not, had are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Jerusalem Delivered - Book 02 - Part 02;
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  • history of its creation;
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