This is an analysis of the poem Sir Aldingar that begins with:
Our king he kept a false stewarde,
Sir Aldingar they him call;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba XXbX cdXD dEfb XgcX XhiX XXjg debX Xgdg XgcX klmn bgdX XgnX egjg debE dXXg XXXd jgdX cXXl faXa bjXj fdXX gbXX dXcb bcXc Xgeg XXgX XdXd igXg Xgcg XcXc XXXb XgXg dgdX fXdX XgeX egdg cgcg cneX egOg Ogcg mXXX XXfX XgXX XgXg kXXX XjXX XdXD iefb haXa eXXX
- 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,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110110 1100111 010101111 1101011 111111101 0110010 11110010 1101111 110011001 00111010 1100101110 0010101 110100011 0101111 110100101 11010111 11101011 1111101 111011101 0110001 11111100 111011 111111111 110111 11111100 110101 111100111 1101101 111100101 011101 111100101 01011110 10011100 01011001 101110111 110111 100011100 111101 110111011 1110101 1111001010 1100101 11101101 11110010 110011111 111111 10101100101 1111111 1111111 1110111 111110010 111101 11111110 111111 111100111 1101101 111100101 011011 111110101 0101111 10011101 111111 1110011101 1100101 111001111 110101 1111011001 1110111 1101101111 1111011 11011011 1101110 11011101 111111 11111001 100111 101101011 010111 110010101 111101 110111111 010111 010110100 111111 11011011001 111101 0101101100 0101011 110101011 0110101 01110101010 11011 11111111 111110 1100100111 1101111 110100111 111101 100111101 110111 1110010100 110101 11111101 111110 11101110 100111 110010101 1111110 111110110 111101 1100100111 1101111 11011101 110111 111011110 1111111 111011110 10111001 1111110101 110011 0111111 1101001 111101100 1010111 111101011 1111110 01011101 11111 11101110 111101 11011101 111011 10010111 0011011 110110101 11100110 1011101011 1100010 110101011 11001010 1111110 1010111 11110101 0110111 110010111 11011 11010101 10101001 11011101 1011101 111100111 0100101 110101101 111110 110010101 111111 11111111 11011 11011101 1100111 11011101 111111 1100101011 01111 1001101011 111101 1110101100 11101010 11111100 111101 11111101 11011010 11111100 110111 111110101 1111101 01110101 1101001 011101100 1101101 11111110 110111 11111110 0111010 110110100 1110101 010110100 100111 11111111 1111001 11101001011 0010101 110100011 0101111 110100111 1101111 1110111 110101 11010010100 101011 10011110 0111110 11011100 1101100 1111111 110111 110101010 01011010 1110101 11011 11011011 0111011 111110101 111001 0101001001 111101 0101001001 110111 11110110 011001
- Amount of stanzas: 55
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 220
- 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; lazar, i, on, rich, thou, you, and, my, to, her, no, with, he, priest, forgive are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, to, no are repeated.
The author used the same word 'if 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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