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

WHY comes not Francis?--From the doleful City
He fled,--and, in his flight, could hear... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccacddebedbffgggghhiiXjXjiiiiiikkffllmamnnffjjhhnfifmnmibffbmaiiddnkkXccmmgghihiififiiiiiifnfniiffXiXimXibbijXininkkffiiiciigcgmmiiiimmXfbbmXnhnhccbbbffffoomaiiffiXiibibiXnnmffaiffiffpp
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 187,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110001010 11100111 01100101 11010111 010111010 01111101 110111010 111100110 11110101 11100101 00110001 110100100 01011101 11111101 01010111 10011011 01110111 01010100 11010100 01010101 11000101 11111111 110100111 11010011 01001101 10110111 010111101 01010001 11110101 11011101 11111101 11110011 11011001 11010111 100010001 11110101 001100101 10111101 01010111 10011111 01000100 01010101 11010101 11001111 01100101 101101011 01010101 1011001 11010001 01010100 00010001 11010111 001011101 10010101 01010011 111010101 11110101 11010001 10000101 100101011 11010011 11011011 11010101 11010100 01010101 010000111 110100110 00101011010 11010101 11111101 11111111 010101010 11000100 11110111 11010101 01110101 01010101 110100101 11010101 11110101 01011101 11100101 11111101 11110101 11010001 01111100 10110101 11000101 10111101 11010101 01110111 110100101 11010111 1101111010 01110101 110111110 1011101 11010111 01011101 11010101 11111001 11110001 10111101 11010101 11000101 01011100 11110101 10010111 11110101 11110101 110100101 11100111 10100101 010010101 11010101 11110101 01010111 11110011 10010111 01110101 001010111 100101001 01011001 010011101 10110101 010110101 10110101 10111101 010011101 100010101 10110111 11010111 11110101 010100101 110111010010 10010101 01011101 11110110 11110101 111101001 01010111 11011101 10010100 100010101 111100001 10010111 11010001 11000101 01010101 10010101 10001101 01010101 11011111 11011101 10011101 11110101 11110101 01010111 11010110 001100100 01110111 01110101 01010101 00110101 11110101 11111100 01011011 10011111 10010101 11110101 11110101 11001101 1001100 11011101 10010101 11010111 01010111 11000111 011010100 11100111 010011101 01010011 11010101 11011001 01010101 01010011 11000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 6631
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1192
  • Amount of lines: 187
  • 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; of, he, what, to, and, traitor, that, she are repeated.

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

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