This is an analysis of the poem Sir Andrew Barton that begins with:

The First Part
'When Flora with her fragrant flowers...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbcdcec fXgcfdbX XagXXebX XcXXXhX XXiXhcbX bXjecgcX cgcXdeje XchXcgcg gcXccgkg gebXcglX aabXXcam cdcdnXXX bcXXgXbb aXflXgjg jijXgcdX hcccXXni fclcXaXX a XaXagcbc ocgXacXX dcXXXcXX XjajgglX gnlnacXc XiXXfXXX bcgXidaX agcgXccm giXXaglX cjXXjgjg XjiXcaXa o
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,8,7,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,1,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011 110001010 10011111 11000110 10010101 1110101 100100111 110100101 11110111 11110110 01010101 1110110100 11101111 11110111 10110111 11101011101 111011010 1111111 11101111001 111111001 11110110 01011110 11101101 1001111101 1110100010 011100110 1111111 1110010111 01110101 111111010 001110111 10100101 11110110 111101010 11111111 101111010100 1100110111 110101111 010100111 01011101 01111101 1010100101 111101011 01010101 101111001 011010111 0111011101 0010100001 11111101 0010100001 1111111001 011111101 111101001 1101111 010101001 110100101 100111101 11010101 1100101001 000111101 11111101 00101000001 1111111 0111001101 0111011001 0101001001 0010110101 1111101 11111101 0101001101 111100101 110011111 11111101 11111111 11111100 110111110 11010111 0011101001 11111101 00110110110 1111111 1111011111 001010101 111110101 110111110 00111101 11011111 110100101 111101001 01010101 0011111 111011101 11011111 110010101 11110101 0110101010 11111101 11111101 110010111 01010101 111000101 11111110 111101101 1101110110 101011101 01010101 101100100 11011101 11101011 110011001 010101001 10110111 111101111 111111011 111010101 010101111 10110111 1110101001 111110101 10101111 101010111 11111001 110100001 1111010001 10110101 01011110 11100101 01010111 110100100 11110101 11101101 11011101 01111101 10111111 10101111001 1110110101 0101 01011101 11010001 1101011001 1101110101 010001101 11101001 11111101 10010101 10110101 11111101 111101101 11010101 11110111 10111101 1101011011 1111010 110111011 1101001001 1101101100 011111101 11110110 111010101 1110111010 11111111 01010111 11110101 11111111 1111001 110101011 11110111 11111111 011111101 1011101111 01001111 1100111101 01011111 111101101 111101001 01111101 110101001 11110101 11010101 1111101001 11110110 11111101 01011111 111101110 111101100 11111101 11000101 1011100010 01011101 101011111 10110101 01011101 11000101 1110101 11010101 11110111 1110101 11101101 11011111 101011101 111100101 110011100 11110111 101011010 011111011 11011101 100110101 11110111 0111001101 110100111 11000111 1100001010 1010101 1111001001 1101101 111111001 11010111 110011100 11110101 011111011 110101110 011100111 110000101 110000110 101001001 11110101 10010110 110011101 010101010 111011101 01110101 111111001 110001010 111111001 11000111 1001101010 010100101 1111101001 11010101 111110101 11101101 1101001011 11111111 10010101 110110101 111111001 110110111 1000111100 1111110010 11010101 01001101 010101001 101010110 11001011 0001100101 10010011 11110001 111111010 110111111 11111101 11111110 111111010 11010101 111111001 101111010 11010101 11111110 110011011 11111111 11010101 11000111 01110111 01010111 11010101 111111001 1111101001 011011111 11010001 100100001 10101011010 1001100101 100101101 11110101 0101110 00111110 11010101 1100111 10101111011 110001001 110011101 01011101 11111101 010101110 11010101 10010101 1101110101 111011010 11010111 110010001 010011101 1111101001 1111111101 10100111 1110100101 110101010 11010111 11011011 010011111 110010101 110011001 11110111 10101011 11011101 11010111 10101111 1011111010 100101110 101010101 01110101 11110111 110110101 1111011 11110001 111010111010 010011101 11010111 11110111 011110001 1110110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 42
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 293
  • Average number of words per stanza: 57
  • Amount of lines: 329
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; of, they, ', and, to, he, his, thou, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, they 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.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

    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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