This is an analysis of the poem Robin Hood And The Prince Of Aragon that begins with:

NOW Robin Hood, Will Scadlock and Little John
Are walking over the plain,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXa bcdc ebXX afaf XXbX Xgag BahX eiXi bXab jkXk XXXX Xlgl abkb beae lmlm lbab bnbn chbX bXbX kodo ckbl XecX Bckc gXaX XecX cknX ellb emea abbb kbdb kblb ealX ljhj bfkf mala XepX hbeX blcb paXa faba fXkX bgbX pbaX cicc cece fbXb XbXX hkkk hmbX bXcX abXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11010101101 1101001 000111010 001111 11111101 010111 1111010101 1111111 1010111111 110100 111011110 101010011 01110101 111101 10011101 11011011 110111010 101001011 011011101 1111110 1110111010 1101010 11110100 110111 11111101 0100111 11110101101 11111110 0101101101 11010001 11100101 011101 1111101011 1101110 0010010101 11011001 0101101011 101001 11011101 100101 1110111010 11011110 0111011011 100101 01011001010 0100101 11001101 010101 10110101 1110101 01010101 110101 011100101 111101 01011101 110101 11011111 110111 01010111 010101 010100101 011111 11110101 110001 111110101 0011111 01110010 0111001 110111101 111111 11010111 010101 10011101 1101110 111010101 1010101 0101010101 110101 01111101 010101 01110001 111101 01010101 11011 11111010 110101 001011111 110101 11111101 111111 100010110 111001 10110101 010101 0101111101 01101100 111101010 111110 11011001 1110101 11110101 110101 01011101 110010 11111101 011011 01110111 1100101 111101011 1010111 11110100 111101 11111101 111111 11111101 010111 00100001 100101 01011101 010101 01110101 010101 11111100 111111 000111001 011001 11111101 111100 11011111 110111 11111101 1111001 01111101 11101101 11010110 0110101 01110101 1110001 11111101 111001 11011100 11001001 11111111 11111 1111101 111101 11110101 1111110 10011101 110111 11110101 110001 010010101 110101 11010101 1101001 01111001 110111 111010101 111101 1010110111 0101101 01110101 0111110 100101101 110101 110011101 001110 01010101 011111 10011101 0111111 010101101 011111 11010001 110101 01011101 010111001 1101010101 0111111 100101111 011101 11111110 111001 11010101 011011 11010001 111001 01111101 110001 110100101 100101 11101111 11011 11011101 1111001 01011101 11111110 11110111 1111110 1101111101 1101011 11011010 1111101 111011101 1010111 11011101 1101001 0101100101 1101111 11101101101 1101101 10010111 0010101 11010101 111111 01010111 010111 11010001 111100 11110111 111101 11011101 010110 100101101 110101 11111110 111111 11110011011 111101 111001011010 1111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 58
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 232
  • 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; her, thou, to, ', they, he, his, and, for are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, from, the, to, and, she, then 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.

    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 here connects the lines.

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