This is an analysis of the poem King Arthur's Death. A Fragment. that begins with:

On Trinitye Mondaye in the morne,
This sore battayle was doom'd to bee,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX bacA XaXa XXbX dacA eafa fXgh XAXa iXXX XAXa XdjX iXiX XajX hhXX XXja gXXa XhaX jXjX giji aXXX eXXX bXbX iklX haja XamX XaXX XaiX lXhk XaXa XXXX XXaX gXaX XXcX iaXX gmXX XXXX XXgX iaXa XXXX XXXa gamX bXXX XhXh baXa dXga iXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010001 01101101 11011110 1001011 10110001 11010011 11110011 110111001 1111111 11111101 11101101 11010011 111010101 10110111 100101001 101010010 01110101 01010001 11011101 110111001 01010101 1100101 111011011 01010111 110101101 01011010 01000101 11010101 0111101 01001101 11111101 10011111 11010101 10010111 0101010 01010001 1101101 01001101 11111101 10011111 1111011 11010101 10010101 1101010 11100101 11010101 10111001 01010101 11011001 1111110101 10010101 1101010 10111101 11011101 01100101 01011111 11011101 1101010 1011101 11110111 11011101 11111110 1101011 111110101 0111011 110011 11010101 10110100 11011001 11110101 010110101 1110111 11111111 11110011 11111101 01010001 11011001 11110101 11011110 1111111 11010101 111100101 110111 11010101 111101101 1111110 01010101 11110011 1111111 01110111 01110111 10010011 1111011 11011101 101011001 0101001 10110101 11110101 01001101 11010101 11010001 10110111 11100111 11011101 11010101 11010111 01011111 01010010 11010101 11111101 11100101 1101011 1111100 100111 110101001 1001011 11011110 11110101 11111000 1111111 11111000 11000101 11111001 11010110 1111111 01011101 011111001 11011101 10010011 11110101 11010101 110111110 010010111 11011011 11111000 1101010 11010101 11010101 1101001101 110110010 11111001 111101011 1011111 11010111 111001101 10110110 00010111 1111001010 01100101 10110011 11111000 11010001 11110101 111101110 10111101 1001101 11010101 1111100 10111101 11011111 11111101 11011111 11101100 11010111 01110001 11011001 10010101 11011111 011110101 11011001 11100101 10011111 11100101 11111111 11010101 111101001 10111111 110101011 111011001 111101011 110010111 11011101 101111001 11011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 46
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 184
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; with, his, he, and, hee are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, but, 'o are repeated.

    The author used the same words for, 'o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    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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