This is an analysis of the poem The White Doe Of Rylstone, Or, The Fate Of The Nortons - Canto Seventh that begins with:

'Powers there are
That touch each other to the quick--in modes... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme:
  • Stanza lengths (in strings):
  • Closest metre:
  • Сlosest rhyme:
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  • Guessed form:
  • Metre:
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 6365
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1113
  • Amount of lines: 364
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; to, and, of, her, she, or are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines gleams is repeated).

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases fulfilled, power, dead connect the lines.

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