This is an analysis of the poem Lorenzo De Lardy that begins with:
DALILAH DE DARDY adored
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab caca dede fefe fgXg heXb hdhd ibib XXXX Bebe bgbX fbXb eXbX XXbX eaea jejX ecec hbhb bXbX BfbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10001001 01010001 01001001 111001001 10001011 10001011 11001011 110001011 01001011 01001001 11011101 101001011 01001011 11001001 101011101 01011001 101101101 11010001 101001001000 10101001 1010101 100100010 0011000010 101011101 11101011 10001011 101101010 01000110 11001001 01111001 101001111 01001001 1000001010 1011110110 10101101 0110011010 1001011101 101011001 01001001 101001000 101101011 11010101 10111111 101110100 01011001 11001001 11001010 11011101 110010010 101001100 101011101 101011000 10010111110 1111001011 11101001101 1111110000 11011000 01001001 111101001 11011011 01011101 01011111 111011101 10110100100 11001001 01011011 01001001 11001001 11001001 11001001 101011001 01101011 01011101 01101110 11001001 101001100 1001011101 101001001 11001011 101011100
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; dalilah, de, dardy, her, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words dalilah, he, je are repeated.
The author used the same word dalilah at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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