This is an analysis of the poem Tam Lin that begins with:
O I forbid you, maidens a',
That wear gowd on your hair,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa XbcX XDaDXX XEFX CXGd HbXX XdXX XDADiX AXHX AjHj hidX hdeX abcX klil hdmX gbaX XDADXX XEFX CXGd HgXX cdeX kbdb delede beceXX nXed kbgX gXjX ngbg bghg nadada nkHk lbHb cXHl cXkb mheX hded hfhf dgbg dgef ClgX CdjdhX cdXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,6,6,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 111111 01111100 111101 11111100 111101 10111110 111100 10110011 0101001 111100101 0101001 11100100 111111 1110100 111101 11110110 101110 11110101 011101 11110111 1101111 1110110 111101 11110100 100110 1000011 11101 11111100 111111 10110011 0101001 111100101 0101001 110001011 111111 1110101 010101 11110110 10101001 1110101 010101 11110110 11111 1111111 110101 111011011 11011 1111111 111111 10111110 110111 1110101 111111 1100111011 111111 11111110 101101 110101111 11011 11101101 111101 11111111 111111 11111111 010101 11010101 110110 10110011 0101001 111100101 0101001 11100100 111111 1110100 111101 11110110 101110 11110101 011101 11110111 1101111 1110110 100111 1101011 111110 111111111 111111 011101010 110001 10111110 110101 11010101 110101 11010101 011101 11010101 111111 01110111 011101 11000101 1110101 11010100 110101 11111111 010010 101010110 010100 11111110 111111 110111110 010101 11111111 11011110 11111111 111111 10110101 011101 11110110 111101 110100111 110101 11110111 111001 01111101 111101 11100110 111001 1111100 111111 11010111 111001 11101110 0011110 11111111 111110 11100111 110101 11111111 111111 10111011 0011101 11111111 110111 11111011 000101 11100110 111011 11101111 110101 110111110 1101111 1010101 110101 111000110 0101101 01010101 110101 01011111 110101 1110111 111101 1101100111 110101 111101101 111101 110110110 11001001 11101110 100111 11110111 1100101 11101110 11101011 1010111 1111111 111100101 01110 11111111 110111 1111111110 1101111
- Amount of stanzas: 43
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 183
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; her, my, me, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words wi, and, out are repeated.
The author used the same words four, 'if, 'and, 'they'll, out 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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