This is an analysis of the poem Ubi Sunt Qui Ante Nos Fuerunt? that begins with:
Were beth they that biforen us weren,
Houndes ladden and havekes beren, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXb bbXccX ddXcXX aXXeeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111100110 1010110010 110111 01100011 110010110 0111 1011011011 111101011 11001100 1101111 10010011 1110100 00110111 1101111 11001110 1110101 110100100 01110 10101101 11110111 0111010 1011101 1010011101 101110110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, hoere, that, long are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word long is repeated.
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