This is an analysis of the poem Artegal And Elidure that begins with:

WHERE be the temples which, in Britain's Isle,
For his paternal Gods, the Trojan raised?... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcXXd bebebbfX bbbbeegg ccccbbhh bbXbXbcc cfcfiiff eeeebbcc bjbjffXkk lklkbbmm dkdnhhff fdfdbbii bbXboobb pdpdeeee dcdcddoo okonbbbb lXlaXmff fpfpddfX fdfdeefX bkbkooii qkqnffdX fffXbbmm bfbfffbb lglgggaX XfffXkdd Xfpfbbee ccccdddd mmmmffbX bfbfddbX gb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,9,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001010101 1001010101 1101011101 0110100101 11010101101 1101010 0101010111 110111111100 1001001101 01100011001 11010010101 01001000101 1101110001 110101 0111010011 110101110111 1110010101 11010010001 1011010101 0101110001 11010101110 110010010 1101010111 101011111101 1101010111 1101010001 1101010101 1111110001 11010001001 11001001 1101011101 010111010101 1111110101 1100010101 11010101000 1101000101 100101000100 110101 0101010111 1111001010001 1101001101 1001010101 1101011101 1101010101 1110010101 1101001 11010010101 110011000011 1111010101 1111010100 0101010101 0101010101 0101010101 010101 1111001101 110101010101 1101001101 010101110010 1100010101 110101000110 1101010101 1101001 000101010 1101111110110 110111101101 0111000111 1110011001 1101010101 11001010101 1101110100 0010101 11110101001 111101111101 1111000101 11010011011 0101100010 1101110100 0101110111 0101011 0011010101 1101010100101 0101010111 1011010001 010011100101 1100010101 1011010101 1010001 11001011111 1010101010101 1101110101 1101110101 1001010100 0100010101 1101110101 110101 1011011101 010001110101 0111010101 1001000101 01011100001 1111111101 1001111001 010011 10110100010 1011010100010 1101011101 100110111001 0101111111 0101011101 1100011100101 010101 1101010001 010101110100 0101001101 1101010100 1011110011 1101110100 1101010111 010101 1001110111 001101110101 11110100111 1001110100 1100010101 1101011100 1001010101 0010101 1111010101 1100110101001 110010010111 1100110111 1101011001 1011010101 1011011111 110101 111100100111 111101110101 01001010011 1101110101 11010110101 0101010101 0101010101 110111 0111010111 0011011101100 1111110001 1011001101 1111010101 110110001 1001010001 10011 1011011011 010101110101 1011101111 0101011101 0101110101 0001010100 10001010101 110101 1111010101 110101110101 1100111101 0101010101 0101010101 0101011110 1101011011 11001 11010010111 111101110101 1101010101 1101011101 11111101011 1101010111 1011110101 110111 1011110101 111110011101 1001000001 1111010101 11001010101 11010010101 1101010101 110011 0110010111 011101001111 1001110010 01110011101 0111000101 11010101001 01110100101 111101 10010100011 110101010101 11010111000 10011100101 11110100001 1101010101 0111010101 010111 1101010001 110101010101 1011011101 1011110101 10111010101 10001010101 1101110101 110111 1111010101 110101110101 1101011111 1100110111 1101101111 1011010101 01110010101 110101 1101010101 110101110100 0101110001 0111000101 0101010101 1101000101 0101010101 010101 1001011011 1001111101100 0101000101 11110100101 0101010001 1101000101 0111010001 110110 1011111101 01010110001001 1101010101 0101010111 1001011111 1101010101 1101110101 010101 1001000101 110101011000
  • Amount of stanzas: 30
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 336
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 241
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; and, his, he, to, not, in, thy are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words 'but, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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