Spring-Tide by Anonymous Olde English: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Spring-Tide that begins with:

Lenten ys come with love to toune,
With blosmen and with briddes roune,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXaXXXX XXbXXXccbaaX XXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110101 01010101 110110 101001 1101000 11110 01001101 0101101 110010 11010101 1101111 110110 0110101 0101011 10101 0110101 01010010 010101 10111 101011 111101 1010111 1011101 11111 0110101 1101011 110101 1010010 1001110 1101 1010101 1010101 111111 1111101 0111110 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 335
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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