This is an analysis of the poem Stanzas that begins with:
WITHIN our happy castle there dwelt One
Whom without blame I may not overlook;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcc dedeefeff agaggcgcc hfhffifii hchjckXkk ececckckk lclcclcll kjkccajXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111010111 1011111101 1101110101 1101010011 11010111101 1011111101 1101010101 1101111001 111101110111 1101111101 1111010101 1011010011 11001010101 01101001001 1111110101 1111011101 1111111101 010101011101 1101010101 11110101010 1101010111 11111011110 110101010010 1101111101 11010101010 0101110111 1101010010101 1100110101 0100110101 11001110101 111110111 1111010101 1111011111 1111110100 1011010101 101111010101 0111010101 1101011111 0100010111 1011110100 1001010100 1001110101 1011010100 0101011101 110111110101 11010010101 10111100101 0111011001 1101110101 11010100111 0101001101 1111111101 1011000101 110101110101 1001010111 1101111111 1001010001 0111011101 1011110101 0101000111 011010101 01001101001 110101110101 1101110101 0101010100 11110100101 11001010110 1011010111 1101010101 0101010100 1101111011 111001100101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 384
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; on, he, to, and, him, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word some is repeated.
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- summary of Stanzas;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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