This is an analysis of the poem The Knight Whose Armour Didn'T Squeak that begins with:
Of all the Knights in Appledore
The wisest was Sir Thomas Tom....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabacc dedeff gbgbhh ciciaa cjcjcc agagbb cfcfcc bkbkdd cfcfjj dcdcXX lmlmXX ababcX dcdcff bfXXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010100 01011101 11011111 11111100 01010111 01000101 11010101 11011111 11001101 01010111 11000111 11011001 10110111 01011101 11110011 11101101 01110100 01110010 01010111 0100101 11010101 11010001 11011101 11011101 10110101 110101001 11010101 11010101 11110111 10010101 11101101 11000101 01011100 11010101 11110001 11110101 01010101 01010101 11010001 110011101 10011101 10110011 11010101 11011111 11001101 11010101 01010101 11011101 11010111 01111101 101011101 01110101 11111101 01011111 11010111 11000101 01011101 01010011 11011101 11111101 11110111 11010101 11100101 10010001 110011110 11010101 11001101 10000101 10101110 01010111 11110101 11010111 01011101 01011101 11010101 11010101 11010001 11010101 11010111 01011101 01010100 11110101 11011111 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; could, and, he, ', his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, he are repeated.
The author used the same word sir 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 ' is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase his connects the lines.
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