This is an analysis of the poem Little Musgrave And Lady Barnard that begins with:

As it fell out on a highe holye daye,
As many bee in the yeare,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbX cded efgf hXhX hXcX iXhX cabX jXje dXkX lgiX jAia jAia fXiX XaXX kaeX hlal XamX ceme XXhX heXX heXe XdXX XcXc cahX aglX XaXa flXX XXiX XeXX
  • 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,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101110111 1101001 11111001011 11011001 101010011 011101 1111100110 11101101 11000101 1100101 1110111001 0100101 111111010 1110101 111011010 11011110 1111111010 1111010 1111111 11110110 11010110010 11010 0111011010 1101111 1111111 0101101 1100001111 0101101 101001011 10101111 111111101 11111001 11101100 1111010 1100101001 111101 101011110 1110101 1011110010 1010010110 100111011 0111101 1111010010 110101 11000111011 0111101 10101010010 11111 111111011 1101101 0111010010 111110110 111101111 11011 0101100101 1010100 10011011 1001101 1001111001 1110100 111111010 111001 100111001 01001001 11110101 1110111 110110111 111010 1011011001 1100101 11111101 11001011 11010100 110101 111111010 1111110 11010101010 1101111 11111010 11011010 100111010 1111011 011001011 1110101 111100110 111111 11110100 1101010 011110101 111101 01111101 10101011 0110011 010111 1011111010 111101 11101101 111111 101111110 11111010 110100101 110101 01001101 110101 111111111 11001111 1011100111 1111111 111101011 1101101 111101010 1101101 110101101 111100 111110101 11110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 29
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 116
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; in, and, thou, some, i, heare, have, strucke, her, you, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, and, methinkes, he are 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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