This is an analysis of the poem Robin Hood And The Potter that begins with:

In schomer, when the leves spryng,
The bloschems on every bowe,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcXX dXXe eXfe XebX bgXX behX XefX XXXh XhXX XebX fXdX feXX iXXX iXiX bibe XXjX XiXX babX XdXb bXXX feeX XXee fXXX fXhX XXXX bXXX XbXX XhbX eXeX i XeXe bkXX iXXk bXhX XXXX iXkX bXXX XXhX XXXX diXX eXXX XkXf eXeb aebX iXiX iXja fecX XXXX ecXX cXfX i
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010101 01011001 11010101 110101 10110 101011 100111011 111101 10110101 1111011 1010110 110101 1101101101 0111010 11100110 1101001 10100110110 1111001 111011001 11001001 11111101101 11010110 111111 1111110 1110101101 111111 111011011 011111 111010110 11111 11111110 0101111 111011 11101001 101001011 11111 10101111 11010111 010100011 101111 1111111011 111011 1111011001 1100101 111101010 111101 101111 011111 1111101010 1101111 0111111 11011011 01001111 11101 010111011 101011 1010011 010011110 01001011 11101111 100111110 11011011 1011011 1111001 101011001 110110010 01001101 101001011 111011110 1100111 01010111 001111 111011 1111001 11111010101 10101111 1101001 011011 10101101 110101 111110101101 11101110 111010110 1111110 111101001010 1111111 101101101001 0110110 1110111110 111100 11111001 11100111 1110110 0100111 1111011111 1110100 11101010 11110101 11111101 1101110 1011110 1111011 111101010 11011110 11101 1111001 100110010100 11110110 1110110 1001101 10010110 0100111 1010100 110101 010010101 111011 1101111 1101001 101110101 01110 0101 11010100 011111 1111110 1111011 1010001 111011 101011111 110101 1101000101 101110 1011001011 1101011 1101101010 11101010 111111 11101101 01011111 111111 1001111 10101101 110111 1111011 1111001 11100101 101111 1001111 11101110 11101101111 111001110 110010 11001111 1100111 1000110 110101 010101011 10101110010 11010011 01111 01010100 110111 10111011111 1101110 11110101 11111010 111101 00101 10010111 10110 110101 10101111 110100101 111101 111111 1111 11101101 110111 1111001 011111 00101101 0111011 0101111 11001101 1111101 11011001 1110110 1111 11101001 11111 11101101 11111101 110010101 01111 011000101111 101001 01110101 101101 11111101 1111011 1111010110 111111 0010101 011111 11100111 110101 1111010 010111 1011111 1100111 0101111 0100101 0111111 11101101 11100101 111111 1111101 10111101 111101 11101010 1011010101 10110111 110111101 101101 1110101010101 110010 111010101011 101100101 111110111010 1100101 10101111 101111 1111101 110101 10111111 0101101 010101111 1101101 01011111 1110110 11100101 1100011 111111111 1110011 100101 11111 010111011 0110011 111110010 100101 10111101 111101 1111001110 10111101 0111110 11010110 10111011 11011111 1111111 11101 101101101 111111 1101101 101111 1011111100 111111 1011101 11111 111010100 11110 111101101 1101110 0111010101 11101101 1111100 1100111 11111110 011101 1111110 1111100 101111101 111101 11110100101 101110 10111111 1111111 1111111 010111 11010110 1100101 1101011 1110111 110101101 01001101 1111011 101111 111111110 111101 10101111011 1110111 11011111011 111111 110110 111101 011110110 110111011 1111011010 110101 110110100 1111100 1110101 1001010011 10111101 010011101 111110011 111110 111111 11111 111110110 110111 1101110011 101001 11010011010 1000111 1110110101 1111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 80
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 327
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; ', y, well, he, to, thow, and, hes, that are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, off, 'and, and are repeated.

    The author used the same words 'y, 'that 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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