This is an analysis of the poem The Troubadour that begins with:
A troubadour he played
Without a castle wall,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cccX dbdb cdcd cecX efef cXcX gbgX cXXX caca hchc aXac cici XXXh XgaX jgjX ghgh ggXg gXgX Xaca baXXXgigi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111 010101 010101 010001 1011101 101101 010101 1111100 010111 101111 010101 010101 010101 011101 111111 110111 1001111 111111 111111 1111110 011101 011101 110001 010101 1010111 110111 111111 0111010 1101001 111001 0101001 10110110 1011101 010011 010100 1100110 010101 110101 010001 10101011 110111 111101 110101 110101 111101 10111010 010111 010101 1010101 010101 111111 001111 1001101 1101010 110000 010101 10011110 111101 110101 10111110 111111 010001 1010100 0101010 1100111 111101 010101 010101 110101 011101 10101010 110111 1010101 010111 100101 1100010 10101110 010101 1011111 100101 010111 110101 1010100 00011100 010011 010101 110101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, or, as, her, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, sir, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Troubadour;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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