This is an analysis of the poem The Count Of Hapsburg that begins with:

At Aix-la-Chapelle, in imperial array,
In its halls renowned in old story,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcccccc dedeffghhg aiaihhhjjX ceceiidhhX XgkgiiekXX jejeccehhX dcdXkkjjjX ceceaadddX ddddhgellX dbXbccjddX mXmcdddcXX bnanddcddc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010010001 001010110 1010101011 111110010 01011101001 0010011011001 110010010 11001011001 10100101001 110110010 10100101001 001010010 11001001011 0100010110 101001000101 11011011001 1011010010 11011001011 101101011011 1011010010 101001001001 101010110 1001001011011 111011010 101001001011 101001011111 1111001001 101011010101 11111011101 10111101000 101101011101 1010011110 11100111011 010110110 10100100101 01001101101 1011010110 101011101011 11101001001 1001101100 100111110101100 1011011110 101011001001 0011010010 1110101111 11101011001 10010110110 101001001011 1010010010100 10110100100 101101001001 010110010 100111101001 0010010110 01011011001 01111001101 101011110 110010011001 101001111101 10110101100 10100101101 101010010 01001011011 1110110100 1011001101001 1110101111 1010010010 101111011001 101001001001 11101110100 10110101101 0100101110 1100100101 1110010010 110011001111 001001101011 010011010 11101001011 111111001011 01101010000 100111110101 1010011010 111011001001 1111010010 101101001001 110010011010 1011010110 10100100101 00110101011 0100100100 1001101101011 010010010 111100011010 1111010110 10101011101 101010001001 010010010 0111101100 10101111011 11111111100 10110111111101 1110011000 101011101101 1011010010 101001111001 110011101011 1110110010 111011101011 1010110110010 10110101000 10100111100 1010011011 1110101101 0110101101 11001001101 001001011101 011110101 111010010001 101100001001 101101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 499
  • Average number of words per stanza: 81
  • Amount of lines: 120
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and, my, what, from, his, he, thy are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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