This is an analysis of the poem William Shakespeare that begins with:

I Warwikshire der stander et Huus,
Det truer med at falde til Gruus,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX aXXXbX XXXXXX cXXXXX dXacXX XeXXXX XXXbXc XXXXfX XaXXXX ggaXXX XXXXcX XfXXXX XXXhii XXXXbX XXXXXX XiXaXX XjXXie XfXbbX ccXXXX hXXXXj XXXXXX bbXXXX XXjffj XXXXXX XdXXXe XeXXXX XXcXec
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110011011 11011111 1101111 11011111 10011110 11100101 110111011 1111110 1111100 11111111 11100111 110100 11011101 11011101 111101 01011011011 1111111 011101 11111111 111101101 110101 1111100010 11111101 1111001 110101111 111111000 11110110 01011011011 11101100 0111110 11101111 1111001101 010101 10101111 110101011 1010111 10110111 11111100 110110 111011111 110101011 111111 11011111 1111110 1011001 11111111 110101110 1101111 110111100 110011101 111011 11010111 111101101 1101111 11011111 11010101 1010110 110111001 1111011 1101000 11111111 100111001 11110110 100111111 111101110 1101100 111011110 11011101 1101101 11111111 11110010 1111111 11110111 11101101 11110100 1111001111 110101110 1110010 01010111 11111101 1101011 110101100 111101101 100101 11101101 11111111 1111010 110101110 11011101 1111000 11011101 11011011110 1101100 1111111 110100101 111100 11111111 11111101 11011011 110110101 10001011010 1111010 1111111 01010111 111010 111111101 110101101 1111010 110111111 11110111 110111 11110111 1110101 110101 110101101 11011101 11110000 0111001 11011111 1111110 11011111 111100111 110111 1110111 0111101 1101111 1110111 11110111 1101010 111101010 11111110 11111 111111101 11111001 11011110 1111101101 111101101 1001010 1111011111 11111011 1010111 110111101 11110111 111111 1101111011 111011 1111111 111101111 11101011 1101101 1101001001 11101101 110111 111101010 111110110 1111101 100111101 1110100 11001011 010100101 011101101 1111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 27
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 162
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; der, v, han, og, med, jeg, den, ved, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words der, og, den, nu, de are repeated.

    The author used the same words og, f at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines v, s, r, d, nkt are repeated).

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