This is an analysis of the poem Griselda: A Society Novel In Verse - Chapter I that begins with:

An idle story with an idle moral!
Why do I tell it, at the risk of quarrel... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXceeeeffaagghiddee bbjjhhccbX kkddddeeihkke eccaafk bbhiaallddffjm cceejjggkkhiaakkcchhffddmmddXdddccnnddddjm aaddddXfllffddkkbbccooeeccccaaeeccoo ccddffddccdd gghhddjjihaajmkkXdccccnnffcceeddhiee ddffccjjffddeeccppXfaa jjXfffhikkffeekkccdXoo ddkk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,10,13,7,14,42,36,12,36,22,22,10,12,6,20,28,12,26,28,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11010011010 11110101010 0101010101 1111011111 1101010111 01011100101 1101001101 1101110101 11010101100 1101011101 1111110111 110011011001 11110101110 01010111010 0101110011 1001110100 0111001011 1101011101 1111001111 0101011111 1011010111 1101110100 1101110101 1111110101 1111110011 1111110101 1111000111 0101010111 1000010111 1101011101 1001110001 1101101111 1100110101 0101110011 1011111101 1001010101 01001111010 11110101110 1101111101 0101110111 1001010011 1101011101 1101001101 0101110001 1001001100 011101011 1101010100 0111001100 1101010111 1111010001 1111010111 1111011110 10011101010 11011111010 1101010101 11100101111 0101110001 1101001101 1011010110 1101010100 1101010011 1110010101 1011110101 0101100111 11001010101 1011010101 1101010101 1100111111 1101110111 1001000110 1111100111 0011011101 1101010011 1101011111 110000110111 1101000101 1111110001 1101110001 11010010101 11010100101 1101111111 110100111000 1101010111 1100010001 1101110111 1101000111 0111010111 1101011101 1001010001 1111111101 1101000101 1101010001 11010011101 10010100101 10011011010 11011110010 1011000101 01010111001 0101110011 1101110101 1101111101 11110011001 0101010101 01010101001 1111110101 1011010101 1011110001 1111011101 1101110101 1001001101 1001010101 0111111100 1101110010 11010100011 0101000101 1111010101 0101110111 1000100110001 0101010110 1101110101 0101110101 00101010100 0011000101 01010101001 010100111 1001010100 1001010101 01001010101 11010100101 1100110111 10100001101 0111011001 01001010101 1101010101 1110011101 0101011001 01010011101 0101110101 11010101010 01000101010 01110010111 0111110101 1011110111 01110010111 10010011101 1101011101 00101110101 0111100001 1110011101 0111010101 1101111111 0101111100 1101010101 1111110001 1001111111 1101001101 11010110001 1001000101 1101110101 1000010001 1110010101 0111110111 1101110101 0100110101 1101110100 110010110011 11001011101 0101010101 0111111100 1111011111 1111010011 1111011101 1101010001 1011001110 1101100101 0101011101 0111011001 1101010101 0101010101 0111110101 1111100101 1111010001 11001010001 1101110001 110010011111 1101010101 1111100101 1001111111 1101101101 1111010111 1111010001 1011110111 1101001111 1101010100 1111110101 1111110101 1111111111 1101110111 01010111001 1001000111 0101110101 1101000111 1101011101 11111001001 1101010101 1101010101 0101010101 1111110100 0101010101 1111010111 0001011101 11010101001 0111011101 0101011001 0111011100 0101010101 1111010100 1101010101 0101111101 1101010001 0111100110 0110011100 1100011101 0101110011 1100010110 0110010100 01001110101 0111110101 1101010101 1101000100 1001111111 1101110101 1101001101 1101011100 1101011101 0101111111 1011010101 0101110100 1111110101 11010000101 1101100101 11001110100 0111010101 1101111101 10010100101 01100101001 1011011101 0111111111 01010110101 1101011001 1101111001 1001100101 01011000101 0111011101 01001000101 0101000101 1101010100 1111011100 10011010001 1101011001 0111100101 1011010101 1111100101 0011010101 1101010011 1111111111 1101110101 01011111010 0101100101 0101111101 1101011111 11010011101 0111111101 1011010001 1111011101 1001110101 1111010011 0101111101 1111111101 0101000100 1111110101 01110111001 11010101101 11010100101 1101010001 0111010101 1101010101 0110010101 1110010101 0011010111 0110010101 1101110111 0101110101 01001100101 0101111110 1111110011 0111010101 0111101111 0101110101 1111011111 1101010101 1101010011 0111110110 1001100100 1101011101 0111010101 0111010101 1101010101 0111010110 0101010101 1111010100 1111101100 10011101001 1101010101 0101010111 1101010111 0011010101 1001001001 0101010111 1101111100 1101011011 1101100101 0111001111 1111010101 0010111111 1001110101 0101010101 1100011101 1101010100 11010001001 1101010111 111100100101 1001110101 1101011001 00101000101 1011011001 01001110101 0111011101 1100010111 1111110111 1111001101 1001010101 0100111001 1001010101 1101010111 1101100101 0111110101 1001001111 1101110101 0101010101 1111110101 1011000101 11011111001 1100011101 1101011101 0101110011 0101011101 1001111101 11110111111 0101010101 1101111111 1111111101 0111011111 1101111101 0101111101 1101011001 11110001101 1101011111 1100011101 1101010011 11010101100 1101011101 0011111111 1101111111 1101111111 0101110101 1101001111 1111010101 1111010101 1001010101 1101010111 0101010101 1101000111 1101000101 0100010111 0101000111 1001010101 0101010101 1101011111 1001010111 11110101110 01110101010 1101110101 1101111101 110111100 1111111101 1111010111 0100010110 1101001111 1101111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 859
  • Average number of words per stanza: 159
  • Amount of lines: 400
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his, of, her, in, to, that, i, with, for, so, not, she, why, speak, '', what are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, in, of, to, that, and, her, she, his, what are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase she connects the lines.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Griselda: A Society Novel In Verse - Chapter I;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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