This is an analysis of the poem Old Robin Of Portingale that begins with:
Let the mayors daughter of Lin, God wott,
He chose her to his wife,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bXcX cdcX bXee XdXd fbXb gbhX ieXe Xgbg djcX djdj bXfX iXfj XjXX gece bXXX bjXj XkXX kbbb bXbX hddd bdgX fddd jhXh dhJX dXJX hXXX fXXX iXbb
- 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: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010100111 110001 110001101 1110111 11001111 111110 11111111 00101101 1111111 101101 1111111 011111 111101011 111011 111001001 111111 10101110 110101 1010101110 010111 111001011 11100101 11010110 010101 1111111 1110101 010110101 011011 11100110 11110101 10101011010 110101 11011011 1001111 101001011 111101 100011101 01111 11110111 111101 100111101 110001 110101001 110111 101101110 111110 100111011 0101111 100111110 101111 1001111011 011111 1111111 110101 1111111 110111 111011 1101011 01101010 110101 10101111 101001 1111111 110111 11011111 110101 11110110 011111 110100111 100111 110100111 11001010 11011101 1101001 111011101 110011 110111101 1010101 11011111 0110010 1010101001 111101 11110111 010011 11000111 111101 11011101 111110 111001011 11101001 111111110 111101 111111 010101 110111101 1110111 01111101 011101 1010101101 1111110 01111101 011101 1010101101 1111110 110100101 110101 110100101 110101 111101011 111101 111001110 111100 110110110 00110101 111000101 1011111
- Amount of stanzas: 29
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 116
- 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; to, and, you, his, any, your, he, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words 'and, he, the 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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