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

We often read and written find,
as learned men do us remind,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccaadXaa eeffghee iicc aaXajjaaaaggkkllllaaddXmllmXggii nnffffllaabb nnlloolloobbee aallaaaaeeeenn aaaadneellaajjccggcX iiooppnnlX jjnX eeXandbXccaaggffggeelleeaaeeffllaannaaoogglX aapXl ggjjaaaaoonnee ccllaaaajjiinnllnnggeecX iibbdncX ooaaccn nllooaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,8,4,32,12,14,14,20,10,4,44,5,14,24,8,7,47,22,28,12,34,10,22,8,18,12,15,9,5,20,12,10,11,23,22,18,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101 1111101 11110101 1101001001 11011101 11111101 011111001 010111001 11011100 111101 01011111 11011101 01011111 11010101 010010011 10010111 11111101 10010110 11110101 11011101 001010101 11111111 10110011 11010101 11010101 01010101 10111100 010011100 01001101 010010101 11011101 11011011 11011101 01010111 11010101 01010101 01110101 11010101 11110101 01010111 11100101 11110111 11011101 010101111 11010100 11111100 0101010 01010101 11101101 1101101 11010101 11110100 01010111 11011101 00011101 110100011 01010101 11111101 111101010 1100101010 110010101 01010101 01010001 11010101 00111101 01011101 0101011101 11011101 11011111 01011101 110100101 11010101 01010101 11010101 11111111 11111101 11001101 11110101 110010111 11011111 01010101 11010111 01011101 11010001 10010101 11111111 11011101 11011101 11110101 11110101 001000111 01010111 11000111 11011101 11001111 11010111 11011101 111100111 11001111 010110101 11010100 110111101 110101011 11111101 110110111 01110111 01111011 11111111 11011111 11011101 01110101 11111101 01010101 11011111 11111111 11111101 11111111 11010101 11100111 10111101 11010111 01111111 11110111 11011111 11110101 11111111 10111111 11111101 11111101 11111101 11110111 101110111 111001010 11011101 11110101 01010100 110111101 01001111 11011111 11111111 11111101 11110101 01010111 110101001 11011111 11110111 11110101 01110111 01110101 10111101 10110111 11111111 11010111 111111111 11111101 01010101 10010111 01011101 110111110 101111110 11010101 11111101 10110111 11110011 110011110 11010101 11011111 10110101 01110111 100101111 11111111 11011111 11011111 110101010 11110101 111100101 101110111 111111110 11011111 101010111 0101001 11110101 11011111 10111111 01010101 010111001 11111001 11110101 11111101 11010101 01110101 11011001 11110111 11110111 01000101 11111101 11011111 11011101 11010101 010110001 11011101 11110101 11111111 11010111 011110001 01110101 111110010 11111111 01010111 11110101 000100101 11011101 00110101 11111111 11010100 11110101 01111111 11011001 11011111 11011111 11010101 11010100 11010010 11011001 110111101 11010101 10010111 1111111 11110100 01111101 11100101 11111101 01010111 11110101 11100101 11110111 11010011 11010111 11010111 11110111 11110101 11010111 01011101 111101110 101111110 11010111 01010111 111100101 01110101 11011111 10110111 11110101 11010111 11111111 01010001 010111111 11010101 01010111 11111101 10101101 11011101 01110101 11101101 01111111 10011111 01011001 01011101 11011001 01111001 11011010 11010101 11011111 01011001 11011101 11111101 01010001 11001101 11110101 11111111 11011111 11111111 0101001 11000101 01011101 11011001 110011111 11111101 11011110 01010111 11011101 010010101 11111111 11011101 11010101 11011111 101111101 11101101 01011101 10100101 10110101 110010011 11111101 110101101 11111111 110010011 11110101 100101101 11010101 100101101 11010101 110010010 11010101 11010101 10010101 110100111 11110111 11110101 10010101 11101101 11111101 11000111 01111101 11111111 11011111 110101111 10010111 01010101 101110101 11011111 10111001 10111111 01010111 11110011 01111101 11110111 01011101 01111111 111101101 110001101 111010111 111111110 01011111 01010111 01000111 11111101 100010101 10011101 11001101 001101101 11000101 11110101 10110111 11110111 010110101 10111101 01010101 01010111 010100101 01010101 10011101 01010111 01110101 01111101 01011101 110101101 01010001 11010101 11111101 11010101 01011101 01111111 11111101 11011101 01011101 10110101 01001101 01010101 11110101 01011011 11111000 11110101 01110011 110111010 01010110 01011110 11010101 11010101 011010101 11111011 11111111 11111111 11110101 11010111 11110111 11010101 110100010 111101010 11110110 11011101 110101101 111111011 10011111 110110101 11110111 11000111 01010101 100101111 11111101 11010101 11010101 01011100 11111101 01110111 11111101 11011101 11110101 11110101 111110010 11111101 01011111 11010101 11110101 11010101 11111101 111011101 11011101 01111111 11111101 1110100101 11010111 1010100101 11011100 01011100 01010101 11110101 01111111 11011100 11100101 11010101 11010101 11010011 11110101 11010100 11010011 110010101 11110101 01010111 10110101 110110000 11011011 11111111 11111101 10111101 11010101 11010101 11011111 11111111 11010111 01011100 01001100 11111101 10100101 01010101 11111101 100111111 11111110 01111101 11010111 11110011 11111101 01111101 101010011 10110101 01111101 11010101 01101111 01010101 11111011 01011101 11011011 10010101 01010111 11011101 1010101001 11110001 11110101 01011101 11111101 11011101 10010101 11011111 00110100 11010101 11010111 111100111 11010111 01011111 01010111 11000101 11011111 11111101 10110001 11110111 11011001 010100001 101110101 11110101 110010101 11010111 10110111 010110100 01110110 01011011 01111111 11001101 111111010 010010111 110011101 10010011 101100101 100100111 11010101 110111101 11011101 11111111 110011101 010010111 01011101 01011111 10111111 11010111 11111101 11111101 11010001 11110101 011100101 110100111 11110101 11011010 11010101 1101101 01111111 11110101 01011111 11110101 01111111 11011101 01010111 11111111 11011111 11011111 010111011 11111101 11111111 10101111 0111001 11010011 10110111 11011011 10010101 11110101 11000111 11000101 01011111 11011111 010011110 01111111 110010111 11001101 11011101 11010111 111110010 11011001 11010101 01010111 001010111 11010101 11111101 10111111 11111111 01111110 001011111 11111101 111110101 11000101 01010101 010010100 01110100 11010101 01110111 11110101 11000101 11111101 111010011 100100100 11011011 01110101 110010110 1010111 00010101 11110101 11111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 39
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 544
  • Average number of words per stanza: 107
  • Amount of lines: 602
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; some, and, of, in, her, she, to, go, i, thee, me, he, his, my, ye, there, him, all, they are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, his, and, she, to, each, the, that, by are repeated.

    The author used the same words then, when, 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.

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