This is an analysis of the poem King Estmere that begins with:

Hearken to me, gentlemen,
Come and you shall heare;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXab XXXX acbX XXdX bXdX BdbX bXdX XXcX cXXX XXXX XXXX bXXX XXXX XXXX XcXX XcXcXc efbf XXXf fXeX XXXX XXXX bXXX XXXX XdXd XXXf XaXA XABG XfXX eXXg XXXX XaXA XABG cfXX BfXX Xfff aXXf XXda XeXe bXXf bXbd XXaX XXCX CXbX XXbX XXhX dabX dXbX XXhX XdXd bXbX XXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001100 11111 11101001010 110110 01001101 0101110 001110110 1100111 11010111 0111001 101100110 010111 1101110 110110 111110101 101001001 110101010 110111 01011011 111010 101111110 011010 11110100 1011010 101111010 11110 1011100101 1111111 1010001 0101010 111101101 0111110 110101101 01011 1110110 101010 11110110 111111 11010110 11001 110101101 110111 110110001 0100010 100111110 1100101 1111101 11111010 110100110 110110 1100111 110101 110110110 111111 11111101 01111100 101010111 1110101 11111111 0111010 1111101 0101001 110100110 0100101 11111010 010101 0100101011 111001 110110110 100101 1011111100 1011111 101010110 110101 11111111 11110 1110111001 111111 1100101 110111 01010101 111100 1111110110 111011 110111101 11110010 110111010 11110 11101110 111101 11111110 1101111 11011011 1111011 11101101 1101011 11110001 1101001 11110111 010011 0111110110 110011 11110101 011001 10010101 0101001 10010101 010101 110111010 1010101 11110110 010111 111101011 1111101 1110111 010111 1111000110 111101 1001001100 11001110 11001111 101110 11110101 011001 10010101 0101001 10010101 010101 110111010 1010101 11111011 1101111 111011011 11111110 101111110 111111 11111111 010110 1100110101 1111111 1100101 01111 110101010 11010 1111101 101111 110110101 110011 01010111 001111 11010111 101111 11010110 0101101 111001010 10011 110111101 0111111 11100110 1101101 11000110 1101001 110100110 11010 11110101 1101100 11110001 1101010 110101101 0111110 110101101 100111 1110110 101010 101111110 1011111 1101001010 1111011 10101101 110011 101101001 0110101 111100111 100111 111101010 01010010 11110101 1110101 110101110 1111110 1111110 1111001 110000111 1111101 11011101 110111 01110011 111101 101111110 1101001 111100110 010100110 111011011 101111 111111101 0101010 111110101 110101 10010101 1011111 111111011 1101111 111110111 111101 1110101 111001 1101111010 111111 1111010101 111101 11010100010 11010 11101101010 111111 11011101 110111 1001001 111101 11111110 111111 1111011100 1111100 11010110 111111 0111110 111101 11111010101 111111 1110110111 110110 11111011011 110101 11111101 10101011 111111111 111101 1110110101 1101001 1111101111 110101 110001011 011111 11101111 110101 11001111 110101 11001111 111101 111101110 1101111 011011 111110 11011101 110101 1110101 111101 11011111 111111 11010110 111101 11011101 110111 111101111 11010 1111101001 110101 1101111 1100001 11010110 000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 69
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 280
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; as, i, his, to, he, and, your, in, hall, ', thou, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, as, and, sayes, to, that, 'thou, 'and are repeated.

    The author used the same words sayes, 'and, and 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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