This is an analysis of the poem Here Foloweth Colyn Blowbols Testament that begins with:

Whan that Bachus, the myghti lorde,
And Juno eke, both by one accorde,...

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 103,1,295,7,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100101 110111110 1101010101 1101000011 01010111101 101101100 11111101 110000101 1101101110 1101010101 10111011 110101001 1110010101 11111101 011100011 1101011111 11010100 11111111 111100001 110111101 0100010101 111101101011 010100010101 11111010 0010101010 10010010110 110011101 11011111001 0011011111 110101011 11011011 1001111111 1101100010101 11011110 110100110100 1101011110 1010001010 111111110 01101011 1001100111 01111110 1110001001001 11011011001 0111001010100 111110111 01100101111 1111111111 11010111111 11101100 011101011010 11110100110 0111110011 10101111 1111000011 1110110010 1101001001 0111010111 111101101 1001111110 1111000100 011101000 111100010011 111001000100 1100111001 011011101 1110110111 1100111011 1111100100 10110011 01110111 0101011101 11001110101 101001001 111111111 1010010101 111011110 111101101 11001101111 110101110 10101000100 0101001010 11101001100 110111100 111111001010 01010110101 110010110101 1111110111 111100101 10111101 111011111 110111111 111101100 1010111100 1101011110 11111111010 10111110 1101111000 1010111001 111110111 11110101111 1001111001 110111100 111110110 0101001 11010110010 1100111 1110111010 1001000010 100101100 10110110 110010101 001101100111 1100011101 1100110101 1101110010 100101010110 1101111110 0101111010 010101101010 11100011000 1001101011 1101110101 11001110100 1101101000 1101111110 01111111 10001011001 110101010 11111011 100111110 1011111011 1111001110 1110101101 10011101 0010010010100 11011011 0111010110 1011111100 011110110 110010101 111100110 1111111101 1011110100 1101010011 1010101101 0110011110 1101010111 1101010101 11010110111 11011111 110110111 111100111 11111110111 1101101011 110001001 110101111 10010001000 11010110101 01111010 11010001 100001010 10010011101 00111101 0111111010 1001001100 1101101101 10101010 111100101 01010011 1110110101 01110001011001 10110111101 0101111011 101100110 101001101 101101101 11000101 110010100 01010100001 1100011011 11001011 1111100010 0111101100 110010110 101011111 01111110100 1001010111 101011011 0101111110 00111101001 100111111 111101101 11111110 01011111 10110101010 100100101010 1101100011 111101011010 110101010 1101001010 10101101101 01010110111 10110001 01001011101 0010001010 011111111 010001100 1111010001 010010011 110100010 010101100 1101101100 110100110111 1111110001 11101011000 10000100010010 101110100 1101011010 0010111001 01011111011 1101011011 0010111011 111011111 10111100 110101101 101001111 0101011000 1011001111 1100101100 10110100 101110010 11101110 111011101 1101110101 111011101 1101110101 110101011 1101111010 1101010001 01001010001 11111011010 111010010 10110001 110011111101 1100000111 110110111 11100100110 01001110110 11111100 11111101 111110010 11111010 0101110111 111101101 11010111001 100111111 11111111 101111100 1101110100 10011111 11010111100 0001101010 111110100 1011001110 110011101 1011010110 011011101 0101011010 11011000101 11010111101 110111101 11011010101101 11101001 1111111101 1110101101 1110101111 111011100 101111010 10011001010 1110101110 111110111 1111111 1010110110 11110110101 111101111 1000101 1011101010 1111010101 101100101 100110001 1011101011 011010100 011010111 110100100101 1111010101 1111101010 11111100111 101110101111 1010111 11001101 11001100 10110101 111001101 101101011 1111110001 1101100101 1101110111 111110101 1100101010 1101011010 10111101 1011101001 11101000 0100110100 1011100001 1001111111 11001111100 0101111100 10111101 011111101 11010101001 1111110100 1111011111 0111010101 11010101 11001100 11010101 01110001110 11011110 1010101010 111101010 1100101010 11101010 1101101010 10010110 01000100110 10111010 101100111010 111110101 011110011 100100110 010011010101 1111010111 1111010110 111111111 0111101101 101011110 1010101 010011010 11110111111 111110011100 011011100 1011110110 01010100001 10011010 1001011010 110101101 1010010111 111010100 11011101 1101111001 1011110101 101110111 1100011000 0110001000 101001110 111001110 11110110110 10100001100 111110001 10101010 1010001110 11101011 1111110110 11110100110 0101001101 1111110101 1110001111 101100010101 101110100 111100111010 111010001000 111101100 11010010001 1101101 01010101010 1111111101 111001100 0101011110 11111101101 1111111001 1100110101 11111111 0010011010 1111100011 1101001100 10001110 01010110111 11110010011 11010111111 1111001010 11111100101 01101111 100010011100 010111011 1101010110 11010100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3183
  • Average number of words per stanza: 616
  • Amount of lines: 410
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; of, he, to, and, his, in, i, ye, that, or, it, be, them, also, as, they, my, with, thow are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, that, he, be, to are repeated.

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