This is an analysis of the poem Guy And Amarant that begins with:

Guy journeyes towards that sanctifyed ground
Whereas the Jewes fayre citye sometime stood,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXabb bcbcdd efefgX hihibb XjhjXX gigibX eaXaXX XdXdXd klXlmX bhbhjX bnbXjj XXXmaX bXblXX XXXhXX bXbdbb gXgakX XdXdii XgXgXg bkXkXX bmbmbX XbXbbb gagakX gdgdnn XXXXXk dbdbXi baXabb aXXXXj gagaaX hjXjbb XojoXe jbjbbb jdjdkX lXlXiX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11000111001 0101011111 1011010111 1111011101 0101001001 0111010101 010010110011 1110101010 1100110101 01110101110 11101101101 0101001001 011100100 1111010101 10010111110 1101110111 0111111111 11111111001 0111110101 11110111010 0110111001 1111010111 1101111101 10010010001 10111100111 11010100111 1101110111 100100111 11010101010 00111011110 1111010011 1011110101 11001011011 1111011111 1111110111 1011011111 1101011001 0101010101 1001011110 1001100101 1011000101 1101010110 1101110101 1111001001 1101110110 0101010100 1101011101 0111001101 111101101 1101110011 1100110111 1111110101 1111010101 1011110101 11110111111 1101010101 0101001111 1101011101 1101110101 11011001010 100011111001 1001000101 111110101 111010111 1000110101 1101000101 1111110110 11001110100 0110010110 0111110101 1101110101 011111101 10011001111 1111110110 0110011101 01001000111 1111011110 11111101010 1111111010 111110101 11011101010 1111000101 10011101010 110001101110 1001010101 11001101000 1101110101 1111010001 011011001 110111001 1011110101 01010101110 10100110101 0100110010 1111001101 1000110111 1111110110 011111101 1111011101 10011111001 1100011111 00110100101 1111011111 110100011 1111010111 1111011101 1001011101 1100111101 111110111 1111110011 1111110111 01011110011 11010101100 11010111110 1011110101 011100011 0101000111 1101110111 0011011111 0101010111 1011100101 0001110101 11010110101 1101100111 1011111101 1111101101 10010001111 01001011110 11111101111 1111100011 1110010111 011101100 1001100111 11010101 10001011101 0101011111 0101111101 1110010111 111011101 0111110101 1111111001 10111001110 1111010100 0111101101 1101010100 111101111 1101110101 0011110111 1101011110 0111100101 1111010101 1001000101 1001010110 11010010111 0101011111 1111100101 111010101 1111001000 1101010010 1100001100 110101011011 1100100101 1101001101 100100101 111101101 1100110111 1011010111 1011011010 11100100101 0010110011 1111011101 1111010111 10110010011 110110101 111001101100 0101011101 1101000100 01101010101 100001111 1011010101 0100110001 010110001 100111101 110101101111 1101110101 1011011101 11011111001 1101101001 0101010101 110111101 110010111 11110111100 00111010100 1101111111 1011101101 1101011110 0101111101 110100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 33
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 198
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and, to, their, he are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word with 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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