This is an analysis of the poem Robin Hood And The Butcher that begins with:
Come, all you brave gallants, and listen awhile,
With hey down, down, an a down,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcd eXfg bhaX baiX bhfX chfX bhjX bbjb jbad ahXh jkXk icaX bhcX bheX ilhl blcX bhfh bfhX caca cXmh chjX gccc cchX ihfh mXbX Xhbg bXiX bhcX XcXc chXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111011001 0111101 11001001 101011100 01101101 01010101 11001001 01010001011 001001000 11001011010 11111101 1101111111 11111100 0101101010 110111 10101110101 11101101 10101111010 1101101 101011011011 10101111 1101101001 1101101 01101111111 11111101 11101111010 1101011 010111111 10101111 1101001011 0101001 0001001011 1111101 1101001011 1101110 111011111 10101111 110101111 1011111 111111110 1101111 11110111 1101111 111111110 1101111 110100101 0101101 10100111100 1110101 010101010 01001100 11011101011 1011101 1000111010 1010101 101011101 111111 110010111 0101101 110110110 0101011 1111111010 1110101 01011001011 11111110 11111011010 110101111 11101001011 11101001 11001011010 11111011 10110111111 001111110 10011001011 1010101100 1111111011 11111011 11101101001 11001101 111101010 1110111 1010100011 011001 11111001000 11011011 0101100010 10110101 011101101 011001 01101011001 001001011 10100111101 00111101 110101011 11011001 01010011 11001011 11111101010 10111101 11101011101 11111100 110101001 11111 1101011101 110100 10101011101 11011101 111100100101 010101 10100111101 11101001 11111000111 01101011 1101010001 1100101 11001010 111101 1101111001 1111011 111010011110 11011001
- Amount of stanzas: 30
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 121
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; down, i, mark, to, he, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words 'four, and are repeated.
The author used the same words when, 'come, then 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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