This is an analysis of the poem St. Stephen And Herod that begins with:
Seynt Stevene was a clerk in Kyng Herowd{.e}s halle,
And servyd him of bred and cloth, as every kyng befalle....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX XX aX XX XX aX XX XX XX aX XX bb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101011001 110101111100110 1010101110111 1101111110101 11100101110001 11001100111010 1100110011101 100101010101110 11001010010 1001010110110010 1011010111011001 100101010101110 110010111111001 10010111110110 10110111111111 1001010111011110 101111011110 101011111011 111111111011 0101101001010101 10111000001101 110101001110111 101101101001 1100010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, e, in, or, that, so are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, 'i are repeated.
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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