This is an analysis of the poem King Leir And His Three Daughters that begins with:

A lamentable Song of the Death of King Leir and his Three Daughters
. To the tune of ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abc defebghg ibebXjkX lgdgflXX dmamgbeX XXhXlndX gdhdflcl jdndagdX ljfjXldl eddddlfl hdadflal fglgcgig gbXbXnhX fldlegbg aldlgfXX dgfgXXbg Xfffoldl ladaXndn ededXlal eeje dofo afffdfaf dXXjllal kbabfdod Xekefldl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,4,4,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00100100101110110 0010 1101 1111001 0101011 11110110 110101 01111101 110111 11010100 110110 11010101 010101 10010001 110101 10111110 111111 10110101 010010 01010101 110111 10110110 111100 11111101 110101 111111001 010110 11010101 110111 01010100 110101 11110111 010011 11101100 1001100 11011111 01110 11111101 101110 11111001 101111 10010001 110111 111111011 111101 11011101 111111 11110111 111101 11010011 110101 11010111 111101 01110001 110111 11011111 110011 01110001 011101 110010101 111101 011100100 110111 11100100 110111 100100101 1101101 10110101 110101 11111111 010101 11010101 101101 01010101 110111 01011101 001101 01001101 110101 11001101 010001 11010101 110101 10110101 010101 11010101 110101 11111111 111101 01100101 111101 11010111 110111 10110101 111101 11101100 110111 00111100 100111 11111001 111101 01110111 110101 11110101 101111 01010111 110101 11110101 110101 11101101 010011 10011011 101101 10111111 100101 11111101 011101 11110101 111111 11010100 010101 10010111 110111 11011110 111101 11010111 110001 11010101 110111 101011101 110101 11000101 010101 11010001 111101 11000100 111101 11011001 110101 11110111 110001 11011001 011101 01111101 110101 11111101 010111 101100101 11101 01011001 011101 110011111 000101 11011101 110101 11010101 011101 11011101 010001 11010101 110101 01010111 011101 11010101 010011 110100110 101001 11110101 100101 11010011 100101 11111001 110111 00110011 100101 11010101 0111010 11010101 1111010 01110111 010101 01010101 11101 11011111 100101 11110101 1101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 25
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 228
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 188
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

    The author used the same word 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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