This is an analysis of the poem Jerusalem Delivered - Book 04 - Part 05 that begins with:

LXIV
'For lo a knight, that had a gate to ward,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abababXX X acacacda X efffffgg X fbfbfbXa X fhehfhii X aXaXajcX X akakakaa X hjhjhdii X iiiiiill X XhahihmX X hghaXajj X ejejekhh X leleleaa X jfgfjfff X acXcacaa X Xmjmjmii X fajXfajm
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 1101110101 0101010101 110100101 1111110101 1101010101 11001010101 0111010010 11010101 1 0101000101 01010101011 11000101 1011101011 11111111 1010111011 111110010 110111 1 010100010 1001011 0101010001 10010010001 1101010111 0111001001 11110101110 010010110010 1 11011101 1011101010 0101010101 10011111010 1111011101 10010110010 11010101100 1011111001 1 1101001111 01010001010 111100110 11010110010 1111000111 01010111010 0001111101 11001000101 1 1101111101 01001111 1101010001 0101100110 0111001001 1101110111 10100101 110110110 1 1001010101 1101110101 0101000101 11001010101 11111111 1011011101 11111111 01001110101 1 1101110001 1101110101 1101110101 1111010101 0101010101 1111010 111100111 111010001 1 111111001 110111011 01111111011 1100111111 01111110001 1101111011 1101110101 10011101001 1 1101010100 111100111 1101111101 1110010111 111111111 1111010101 0101010011 0101111101 1 0111100101 1001000 0111110101 0101100101 010110110 0101110101 0101111011 1101111101 1 0111010101 1101000101 0101110101 1001011101 1011110001 1101010101 1111110101 101110101 1 1101010001 0101010101 101111011 1101110101 11010111101 1101110101 1011011101 1111110111 1 011111001 0101111101 111000010 100110101 0101011111 1101111101 1011111101 1011110111 1 1101001101 01110101 1101010100 0101010101 1011111111 0111011001 101110101 111111101 1 111100110 0111000011 1111111101 011111111 1111011111 1011110101 101111110 0100111101 1 111011101 1101001101 100100010 10010111 1111000101 0101110001 111110101 00101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 34
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 153
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; to, her, he, his, in, and, thy, me, my, what, thus are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).

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