This is an analysis of the poem May Colven that begins with:
False Sir John a wooing came
To a maid of beauty fair;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdeX fghg ciei cihi Xcja XcjX cicX eihi XcfX ciXX gifi eccX cdeX eigX XieX biXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1110101 0010101 11010101 010101 11011101 1100011 011101001 011110 111001010 110101 111010011 1100101 1111111 111111 011100101 01101001 11011111 110111 111110110 011110 11111110 111101 10101110 0100111 11111110 1111001 1101110 0100111 111011111 11001001 1010010100 0101001 11011101 01001001 1111101 011001 11111110 111111 1111011010 1111111 11111111 111101 110110111 1011101 11110101 111111 1111001010 0101101 111101010 1101110 11010111 1111101 11111111 1110011 01111101 1011110 111111010 1101011 111000101 11001001 1110101 00110111 1101010 1101111 11010111 0110101 111101110 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; he, wood, her, to, help, she, you, woo'd, of, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, your are repeated.
The author used the same words he, 'cast at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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