This is an analysis of the poem Edward The Confessor that begins with:
Here Edward king, lord of the English,
sent his soul strong in truth to Christ,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabcXdeXeffgfahdebdfXhbbebabXfhgc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110110010 10110101 0111001010 10011101 010101110 10011101 101111 110011001 10010111 110101001 01011011100 11111 10110101 11110001010 010111010010 111100101 101011101 1011011001 111100110 001011001 1101101 10111101010 01001111 10010001001 1110011001 111011011 010000101001001 0110100011 01111010010 011011001 1011111 1000101 011110110 1010010010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1312
- Average number of words per stanza: 227
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; in, and are repeated.
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