This is an analysis of the poem Robin Hood And Guy Of Gisborne that begins with:

When shawes been sheene, and shradds full fayre,
And leeves both large and longe,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX bcXX XXdX ceaX efXXg cfdf cf dcdc cfXX hXXX cijX ecXcg Xdkd kccc ccaX jXXa cfeX aXcc aXXX Xfcf XecX cfdf Xcdl ffdX XXcX XdfX XXdfg icXX XXXX XXdX XXXX aXfX Xdkd fXcX XXlXg cXXa caaa afdf XXXd XfXX hXiX XdXX Xbckg XXdX cXdj chXX Xjlj XdjX jXcd fXdXg X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,5,4,2,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110011111 1101111 10101000110 010111 01011111 010101 10011110 111111 11101111 111111 0111001001 101011010 10111011 101110101 1010101101 0100101 111111011 111101 11111110 011101 1 0111101 010111 1011001011 111101 100100110 0101001 01101011101 1110011 111100101 11111 111101101 100101 110101110 0101010 11111111 110101 11111110 1101110 001100101 1011111 1101110011 1111110 11011101 1101011 1010100 0111011 1 11110100 1100111 1110011 011001 1100111 101011 101001011 110101 11111010101 110111 111101111 0011110 1110011 1100101 011100101 111001 1111011101 1111101 1011111 111111 01011101 010101 1011001001 0100111 0111011001 0101010 11010010 110110 10011101 111111 1111101 1111001 11010111101010 110101 111101101 110111 111100101 11011001 11011101 0011111 1111001011 100101 01110111 101111 110010111 11001011 100101110011 00101101 1110011111 1011010 111101110 11010110 11110111 111101 11101010101 1101010 1111010110010 1010110 11110111 010111 1 111101001 110100110 11110101 111010 11010101 1111001 11011101 0101011 11010111 111111 11111101 110111 01011101 01111011 11110010 111111 0101111 1101010 1101101011 1110011 110111101 11011001 1111010111 10101101 111101011 1001010 11111010 1111110 111111011 111110011 111111111 11100100 1 11000011010 111111 1101010100 0101111 1111010111 1110111 0110101101 011111 01111100101 11000101 111011101 11000101 10110101 110111 111111010 1111011 11101101 1111011 110110110 010101 10111101 111110 111101101 011111 11111101 11011011 11110111 1111110 10111101 1111001 1111010101 111111 1 11111011 101011 01110110111 11101010 10010101 111001 11111101 111101 1101001101 101111 111010100 01111110 101101001 01100101 1100100101 1111001 10101010 1111010 1101111011 1111101 1101111011 1101101 110111010 100101 1101011 10111110 1101110101 1110010 1 1111101011 111101 00100111 11100110 110101010 11011011 101101111 110011 110110101 11111010 1110101101 111010 11011101101 11111101 01011010 110101 1101100110 111111 111001011 11010110 110111101 1101111 1111101001 110001 111101001 010001101 0101101101 11101 01010101 111101 1101010 110101 11110111 101111 110101101 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 59
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 240
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; and, thou, ', good, thy, to, of, i, hee, him are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, and, 'good, 'thou are repeated.

    The author used the same words and, 'i, the, but 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.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase john connects the lines.

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