This is an analysis of the poem Sir Roland that begins with:
Whan he cam to his ain luve's bouir
He tirled at the pin,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa XbXX cbXX XccX cXcX XbXX cadX eaaa ebeb aefe cXXX bXXc cded ebbX bXca cAcX cAcX caca cbeX cacX caea fcac eXcX edXd cbXb ebeb ebeX
- 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,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111001101 110101 111010111 011110 1101011011 1101101 10111101101 10101101 110101011 10100101 11101110 1111111 1101110 11101101 111111111 111010010 101111011 111101 1110010111 1010101 11101101 1101110 11011001010 1111111 111010111 1011101 1111111 11011101 110100111 100111 1110100111 1101001 11000101 100111 111010111 111011 11110101 1011111 111101111 110111 11111111 110111 111101101 0100111 11000111 110011 11011101 111101 11011101 1011101 110101111 1111111 10100111 111110 11110111 111101 11001111 111011 011101101 111101 10010111 100101 100110101 1011111 11000111 100101 100110101 1011111 01110111 0101101 11111001 111111 11011111 110111 111110111 1010110 11111111 100101 1111010111 1010101 101011111 110111 111011101 011101 110010101 110111 110101111 10100101 11111111 110111 1101010111 1010011 01111101 100101 1111010110 110101 10010111 1001101 11101110 01111001 111111100 101011011 1011111101 110111 11111100 1111111 111011101 10111101
- Amount of stanzas: 29
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 110
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; welcome, she, he, it, round are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, 'the are repeated.
The author used the same word she 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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