This is an analysis of Nonsuited by James Brunton Stephens.
“Dear Richard, come at once;”—so ran her letter;
The letter of a married female friend:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abababcc ddddddee fgfgfgdd bhbhbhiijkjXjkaa ebebebff elelelXd bhbhbhdd mememecc jbjbjbnn hghg hgeX Xoeoeohh edededdd enenendd hjhjhjee ejejejll hehehehh Xeeeeeekk
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,16,8,8,8,8,8,4,4,8,8,8,8,8,8,9,
- Metre: 11011111010 0100010111 11111101110 1111110101 01000111010 1111110111 1101111001 1111110101 1100011101 01010100111 1111111101 1101010101 1111110101 1101110011 10111101011 01101111011 1101110101 01001000101 0101110001 10001110111 1111010111 1101011100 1101010101 0101010111 1101010101 1111111101 11001111001 0101010101 1111010111 11010100111 11011101010 10010100110 11110010001 10010101010 1101101001 11011111110 0101010001 01010101010 11010101110 11010111010 0101100111 10010010001001 1101000111 0101000101 1101110001 0101011001 0101110101 1100111101 1111010101 10111010001 1101100101 1101000100 11010111001 1001010101 1001001101 1101000101 1101111001 0101010101 1001010101 1101110001 1011010101 0101011101 1111000101 1101010111 1101110101 1100110111 1101011111 1100010100 0001010011 11010011011 11011100111 1101010101 1101001101 1101001101 1101010101 1111010011 1111010101 1111110111 110111000100 010111100100 11111100101 0111111101 0101010101 1101110101 01010111001 10011001111 11111101010 11011101010 0101000100 1001011101 1111001111 1011010101 1101010101 0100010100 1111110111 00010001001 1101111101 1101000101 10110010101 1101000101 0101010101 1001011101 11010100010 11000111010 1101110111 01110001110 0101110101 11011101010 1111010111 11010101110 1101011101 1001111101 1100100101 0101011001 0101110101 1101000100 1111111110 1101110101 1101110101 1111111111 1111010111 1111111101 1101010111 1111010101 1101010101 11011101001 1111111101 1101111101 1101110111 1101010111 0100011111 0101111111 1111010111 11010101011 0100100111 11011111001 1111000101 1011110101 1111111101 1101010101 1111010101 1111110101 1111111101 1111000101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 18
- Lines: 145
Repeated words/phrases
like, and, his, he, she
Anaphora
the, and, was, he
Epiphora
out