This is an analysis of the poem Grif, Of The Bloody Hand that begins with:
In an immense wood in the south of Kent,
There lived a band of robbers which caused the people discontent;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXb bbbb ccdd eeff gggg ffhe bbbb aXdX fXXh iijj eXee kkll eebb bbXe bbbb bbee ffbb Xfgg XffX mmbb heee Xbeh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101100101 110101011010001 10110101101 111111001101101 11011100101 11110110111101 101111001101101 001011110011 01010111101 101011011101 110010110010 011010100011101 101010010101 010110101010101 11011101100111 1001010011110101 1101001011 101000111111 110101111001 01010111011010011101 1111010011001 11111101011 1111001001001010 1111011110101 101001011111001 10111011100101 111011100100101 111101011011011 11111111101 11110101110 011001111101 1101010111001 1111111111111 110101111110100 11001010010 11010111001000110 1111101001 11110101111111 11101010101010 01010111101110 111101101 0111011001000010010 1111011001 1011111110100101 10101101110101010 111111101101010 111010110101101 101100111001 101011010100101 101011010001 10110100100001 1100100100100 110110100101 1110011110101 01011001000010010 101010100101101 1111100100001 1010111101000101 1110111101 1100111101001 1101100101000101 011010001001001101 110101001001110001 110010011001 11011010101011 110100001 1011000101110111 111001101011101 110101110110100100 110010111101 11110111100100011 11010101100101 1111111001110100100 11101100110011 10111101101 10111101010111 1111111101111 0111110101 111011111001 10110001101001 10100100111101100 10111001001100001 11101110101001 11111010100101 11111010100100 1111010010100101011 11101001111001 11111001010100
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, he, you, i, to, sir, of, her, then are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, well, then are repeated.
The author used the same words and, then 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 here is repeated).
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