This is an analysis of the poem A Pleasant Ballad Of King Henry Ii. And The Miller Of Mansfield that begins with:

Part the First.
Henry, our royall kind, would ride a hunting...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbXdd XeXfaa eafagX hXgXXX iXiXjX kXXalX iXbiXX iXXXjX XgXggX XemXiX cgnXeX omXXgX XmXXXX gXXgXX XXXabX mXXgcX XaXaoX XXeXee aXgXdd bXjdXa d fgegaa daaakX Xiiijj kkicgg XaXXlX kjijbX XdXdgX gdndcX XgXgdX ajXjdd bXhXXX gXeXaX hdmddd XajacX jXbXaX XdXdjX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,1,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101 10110111010 0011011011 010110110110 10101101010 1110011101 1010010001 10110110110 0101011011 10011110110 1011011011 1111011111 1010011001 100110101111 0011011101 100101101101 1101011101 1111111101 111111011 1111101111100 10110011110 1110101110101 11101111001 1110011110 11110011110 110111101101 11010010110 111111011011 110100101110 1110011111 0001011011 11101111010 11111111111 101110111110 11101011001 1011111101 01110110110 111101100101 1101001011 0101100101101 101101101 11111111110 11111111110 1111100111101 0111001111 101111000101 101100110 111101111 1111111101 1111010110 0010011101 111111101100 1011011011 1111011001 1010101010 10010011010 1011001001 110010111010 0111100011 1111111111 11110010010 110101111101 111101110 11011111111 101101100011 10100111101 11101111110 11110110111 1111001111 11111000100 11101110110 1111011011 1111011101 01011001110 10101011001 1011001110 0111010101 1010110011 100101101 1010101101101 1011001011 11111111110 1101001001 110110110110 11110111010 10101011110 10010010110 0110111110 10101011111 11010011101 1100111101 11110111100 111100101 1110111101101 1101111111 0101111011 1111110111 1110111100100 11011011111 101101111001 101111001 1111001011 111111011010 11110111010 0111011111 01011111011 10111110 01011011111 1011010101 1110101111011 1111001011 0111100101111 1101011001 1011001111 1011101101 010101100100 110111011 010101100101 1001111101 1101101010 1111011101 1010 111101110101 1001011101 010011111110 001110101 0011111001 0100101111 111110111010 0111011001 1011011011 0011011011 10010011010 010010110110 1101011010100 1011011011 010011111010 0111010011 1110011101 010101111 111100110100 1111011010 1011100101100 111011011 1111111111 11100111101 10001011100010 11101010111 11111111110 11110101101 1101001101 111010111110 11010111100 1101011011 111110011100 1110101111 1111111011 11101000101 0100111100 1101011101 1011001100 001110101 1010011011 0101100111 111101110101 1101011001 111101111111 101101111 01011011111 01011011110 111101111111 1110111011 110111111101 0101111111 1111101101 0100110111100 001101111001 11011011101 1111010110001 1111010011 01011001101 01111001111 011010110110 1001010011 10111111110 0111011010 1100101011 1111111111 1111111011 11111101011 11110110110 1011011011 111010101101 1100111111 0110100110100 1011001101 001111100101 0101011001 0111011001 1110101001 10110001010 1101001101 111101110101 1001011001 1001101111 101101101 11110111010 00011010000 11111111001 10110111110 11110111110 1100010110011 1111011110 1111011001 1111110111100 11111011111 1110101001 1011001011 11011110011 10111111010 011101111001 101001101 01101001001 11111001111 101100101101 110100101 111101100100 1011001001 1001011101 01001001111 1010111000110 1011010111 101101111101 1111010011 1111110011 1111110100 11110011101 10101111101 11110111011 1111111011 1101011111 11111011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 42
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 242
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, ', thee, i, all, quoth, thou, his, your, we, as, king, you, it, him, of are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is 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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