This is an analysis of the poem Earl Roderick’s Bride that begins with:

It was the Black Earl Roderick
Who rode towards the south;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdefeaghghidifXaXaijX adkdajljfhahggmXajfjhnjXhicXdhmX aghgegmghhihjfofhhhX aeleacfcmifX ajdjlaiaXchcgjoXahihpppXhhqhjchc dheXXhlhXidijXgXagigcehelhhXhdkd gjajijpXrXdgpdqdjahAihjXaphpgcnc heiXgliXaaiaqeheelhleclcahXXagi gXeheeidirgjXlcdXXgqXahhhddeddcP
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,32,20,12,32,32,32,31,33,32,32,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101110 110101 01110101 010101 01110101 110111 11010101 010101 1111110 010101 01110101 111101 11110101 010101 11110101 110101 11011111 1111010 1001110 1101010 1010110 1001001 01010001 010110 1101110 001111 01110101 011101 11110011 000101 11010101 010001 11110001 110101 1111110 011111 11100100 010101 11000101 111110 1101110 110001 01011100 111111 01010111 111100 11011110 011101 01010001 110111 10110111 011111 11010101 110111 10011101 110101 1101110 010001 11010101 010111 01110111 110101 11010111 010101 10010101 111101 11010101 101101 10010101 110101 11111111 011101 11010101 101010 11111101 101110 01011110 110101 11010101 010101 1011110 111111 11111100 110111 11010001 100101 11101111 010001 1111110 110111 11010101 110101 11011001 110111 11110111 110101 1111100 111101 01011101 110001 11011111 111101 11110001 010111 1001110 110101 11010101 011101 11111111 0111001 11011011 1101010 11011001 010111 110111110 010111 11111101 110111 11010011 010101 11111101 011101 11111101 101101 111111010 010101 11110101 110111 11110101 110101 11110001 010111 11110111 110101 11111110 101101 1101110 110101 11110001 011011 11110101 101111 11010111 110101 11010101 111101 11011111 1101110 11110101 111101 11110111 110101 11010111 110101 1111110 110111 110011111 110101 11010011 010111 10110011 110111 11010101 110101 11010101 111101 11111100 010101 11111101 110101 11000101 010111 11011111 111101 11111101 1110010 1101110 110101 100101101 111111 11110101 111111 11110110 111101 11010101 100101 11110001 001101 11010101 111011 110101001 1111100 1101110 110011 11010101 010101 11000110 110101 11110101 010111 11010101 011101 11110101 111101 11010101 110101 11110101 010101 11110111 011001 11011100 111111 1101110 100101 11000101 110101 11110110 110101 11010111 010101 11010101 110001 11010101 011111 11011111 110101 10010111 110101 11110101 111111 11110101 1111010 10110101 111100 01110100 111101 1111110 110111 11111011 010101 10110101 110001 11011101 110111 11111101 110101 100100101 000101 11111111 110101 1101110 110111 1101110 110110 10110001 110101 11110101 111101 11111101 1111000 1111110 110111 110101010 011101 11010101 111101 01010111 010101 11111111 111111 10010111 110111 1111110 110101 10011001 110111 1111110 110101 11111101 111101 11001111 110101 110010111 010101 11011101 110101 11001101 111001 01111101 111101 11110001 111101 11000111 110101 11000110 011111 11000111 110111 10010101 010100 11010011 011111 11010101 1100101 11110101 010101 11110001 1111011 11010111 100101 11000101 010111 110011101 110101 0101110 110001 100100101 000101 11111101 110101 11011101 110101 1101110 100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 826
  • Average number of words per stanza: 164
  • Amount of lines: 324
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; who, in, his, and, he, she, her, you, tell are repeated.

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

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

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

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