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

IN trellised shed with clustering roses gay,
And, MARY! oft beside our blazing fire,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abababcc dedXdeff gdgdgdXe hdhdhddd igigigjj klklklmm fkfkfkff gnXngndd eX hdoejoXadikdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,2,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 010010100101 11010111010 1101010101 11010001010 0101010101 11010101010 0101000101 010111001001 1101010101 1011000101 1011110101 0101011000 1111000101 0111100111 1101000100 1011010001 1111100101 0101010101 1101110100 1101010101 1001001101 1100100101 11010111100 1101110111 1101010101 1101010011 1111010101 1101010101 101010011001 01010010011 1101010110 0101010100 0110011101 1101011101 1111010111 0111010010 1011000101 1101111001 0111010001 1111010111 11011101111 1101110101 0101011100 0101010101 1000010011101 0101010101 00111100110 01110101110 0101011101 0111010101 1001011101 0101000101 10110110101 1001110101 1110100111 010100100100 1101010011 1101011100 1111010010 0101011111 1101001100 10010101011 0101110001 1011001101 101010 101 10010100101 01000100111 1110010100 1101011101 10001000111 1101000100 11110100101 11000101001 1101010101 1101011101 1101110101 1101010101 100010101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 330
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 80
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; in, her, of are repeated.

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

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