This is an analysis of the poem Battle Of Brunanburgh that begins with:
Athelstan King,
Lord among Earls,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdXaefXeXXb gXhbb dhXIbjXcadahhcchk bjbchg XXlXmbncI XXbX djaXjc hXho clbbcjpfbk clXdbXhadedbXbbqc bmldohb hXXXk hhcccX Xbfbbgdnoqphmjc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,5,17,6,9,4,6,4,10,17,7,5,6,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001 1011 101001 10010 10010 10100 10011 10010 10011 11100 1011 100100 10100 10100101 11010 101100 111100 101100 1111111111 1010 1010 1010 1001 101010010 101101 110100 10011 11010 11011010010 10010 111001 110100 10011 1101 11010 1001 10110 11011 100100 10010011110 10011010011 10111010011 10010 11011 101100 11010 100100 10010 100110 10010 1001 1111011011 10110010010 1101110010 10110 10110 1010100 100100 10011 100100100100 100110111 100101 1000 100101 11010 10101 10010 010011 111100 110111 10010 10011 10010 10010 01001 10101 10010 010011 10110 110010 11110 010110 010110 111010 010010 110010 010010 0100100 010010 010010 011110 010010 10111 100100 1100100 10010 0101001110 1011011001 1011 10010 11100 10010 10010011100 1001 100101100100 100101100101 11011100101 1101010100101 100100110101 11101001 10110 10010 11011 11110 1100100 10011 100110 101100 100110 100100 101101 100101 110110 100101 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 285
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 125
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; their, his, of, many, left, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, many, left are repeated.
The author used the same word slender 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 and is repeated).
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