This is an analysis of the poem Fair Elanor that begins with:
The bell struck one, and shook the silent tower;
The graves give up their dead: fair Elenor... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbccdXc dedd dfdX Xegh bgXg dedh XeXX aicg dejX dagd Xcid bbdX gggX dggj gajf jgeXXbdge
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01111101010 0111111100 110101110 0101110101 1101110101 1011011101 011010010 1101010101 1101011101 0111010101 1101110100 1010011001 1001111101 1101101001 1001111011 1111110110 1111010100 0100101101 0111010101 1011110101 01010100101 1011011111 0011100100 1111010111 1111110001 011010111 1101010001 1111010101 1111010101 10110010001 10001110101 11010110010 1011010110 0101101011 11010111010 1101110101 0101010111 1101110111 110111111 1111110100 11110100101 01011111110 1101011101 11110111010 1111010101 1101111100 11110100101 110111010010 1101010101 1011010111 0101010101 1100110101 110111101 1101010101 1001111111 1100100101 0101010101 0100010101 0011110110 0101011101 1100111101 11010101010 110110101 011011101 110001011 1111111111 1111110001 1010001110 1101111001 1101011001 11011111101 1100011101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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, send, it, her, ah, she, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, ah, o, she are repeated.
The author used the same words my, o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Fair Elanor;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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