This is an analysis of the poem On The Death Of K. Edward The First that begins with:

Alle, that beoth of huerte trewe,
A stounde herkneth to my song...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaabab XXXXXXXX XcXXXcXc XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX dXdXXXXX ecXccXXX fXXgXXgX cXcXXXXX XXhXXXXb XfXXXXXX eXh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011 0110011 010111111 1101111001 0011111 0111111 110111111 1111111 1101111 01110111 01011111 11010111 101011 101111 11111101 01001101 1011111 11111101 10101011 111111 11010001 1111111011 101111011 11010111 1101110 11011110 10011101 01010101 0111111 10010111 0101111 111011110 101110010 11010101 011010101 0100101 1111111 11000111 010000101 01011001 01000011 1111111 1110111 1001111 0111011 11010110 10111101 01001101 010011 111111111 11010011 11100101 1011101 111111 1111111 101011 010101101 011100 111011 11010010 11111100 10111110 01011101 111101111 10001111 0100110 11101011 0111111 111110111 11011101 1111111 010111110 10100100 10100110 1111011 101011101 01001101 1100010 110010111 01101111 1110101 1111001 01011101 101101 111110100 01101101 11110010 11011101 11011001 1111110011 101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 91
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; that, y, to, of are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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