This is an analysis of the poem Alysoun that begins with:
An hendy hap ichabbe yhent;
Ichot, from hevene it is me sent;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaX XXXXXXXX XbXXbbbX bcbcccXX XdbddddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011010 100100011 01101101 111100 1011100 1110001 01011101 11101 110110 1100011 11111 1001010 111000110 10111011 01011111 01011110 11110101 1110101 10101001 111010 1011111 10110101 1001111 1001011 01111101 111010011 101010101 110101 10110110 1011001 1101111 101101 1001011 110101 10101 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 36
- 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; e, hire are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word with is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e is repeated).
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