This is an analysis of the poem Hart-Leap Well that begins with:

The Knight had ridden down from Wensley Moor
With the slow motion of a summer's cloud, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab bcbc dada eaea bfbf ffff gfgf bbbb fcfc bhXh hehe hhhh hbhb idid hchc jeje fbfb kXKl eaXX bkbk bebe ebeb kXKl jeje b bgbX aeae fmfm bfbX acac hbhb bhbX bdbd ejej mfmf fhfh hmhm gege nbnb fkfk bfbX efef adad ajaj cfcf bdbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0111010101 0011000101 1111010101 1010101001101 1000100110101 1100110101 1101011101 11110111001 1100010101 0111010101 1111010101 1001010001 0101011101 1111010101 1111110111 1111110101 1101010101 10011011101 1111010011 1011010101 0110111101 0101011001 1111111111 0111010101 1001010001 0101110001 0101111101 1101011101 0111010101 1011011111 1011011111 1101101101 1001110101 11110011111 1101011101 1101010101 1001111101 10110001001 110101010010 1101100101 0101011101 01010010101 1001110111 010000101001 1111010111 1011011101 1101111111 1111011101 1101010111 1101011101 11001110101 1101010101 11010111101 1111011101 1111100101 1001010111 10101010101 1011011101 10010010101 0101110111 10101001101 0101110001 1111110001 0011110111 10101011101 0101001101 11001010111 1101110111 10001011111 1011001100 1001010101 10110011010 10001000101 1100010101 0100110101 101101010100 1111110111 01010101001 1001011111 1111011101 1101000111 0101010101 1100111101 1101010001 11010100101 0101110001 1101010101 0101000111 1101010101 11010100100 1001010101 11000111010 0111010101 1011000101 1101010101 1100110101 110 0101000111 0101111101 1101010101 01010111011 1101010001 01011110001 1101110001 1111110101 1001011101 1101011101 1111010001 0111010111 0101010111 1100110101 1111111111 100110101110 1101011111 1101010101 01100011111 1101010001 11010011101 1111010101 1101010101 11011011010 0101111101 1011011101 10101001110101 1101010101 10111010101 1111110101 10010110101 0101000101 1101010101 1101010101 1100111111 1101100101 100101110111 0101011101 1101111101 01011101001 10111010101 1111111111 1111010001 1011110101 101110100111 10001010101 1111111101 1100100101 1011101101001 1011011101 1101110101 1111011101 10101010111 1101000101 0101010111 1111000101 101010101001 1101110101 1101111111 11011011101 10101011101 0111010101 1000111101 111111011100 10101011101 11001011111 01110001101 0111110001 1101000111 1000110101 0101110101 10100010111 1101010101 0011011101 1100110111 1111010101 1111000101 1111110101 1101000101 1100110101 10101011101 1111111101 1001110111 01000101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 46
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 181
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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, he, nor, his, of are repeated.

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

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

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