This is an analysis of the poem St. George And The Dragon that begins with:

Of Hector's deeds did Homer sing,
And of the sack of stately Troy, ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc dbdbcc eceXbb cdXdbb acacdd dXdbdd fgfXcc dbdbee bXbhcc afaffX icbcbbhbfXaX bbbbjj dcdcfX fgfgkX dddXbX jcjccX ldldee bdbdbX jbjbbb cmcmbb lclXdd ilblbX cXcdcc ananll opopbi fdfddd cbcbcc fmfmaa qbqree dXdidd jsjscc rlbldd cbcbee qcqccc dmdmdd lklk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,12,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010101 10010101 11110001 11110101 11111001 11011101 01010011 111111001 1101101 01000101 110100101 01011111 11010111 01110101 01010111 01101110 110100111 01000101 01100111 01010001 11111010 01110101 11110101 10010101 01110101 01010100 01010111 11011101 01111111 11111111 10010101 111110 01010111 110010111 01010101 010111001 11101111 10010101 10011101 11010110 11110101 10010101 01110111 1101010 100010101 01010001 11010101 101010100 100101001 01011101 11010101 110110010 10011101 01010101 110100001 11010001 10010101 11111101 11110101 11111011 1101100 10010111 11010111 01010001 11011111 11010101 11111100 11111111 11010011 11110111 11110101 11110101 11110101 10010101 11011111 11100101 01011101 01010111 11011111 11101101 01010111 11100101 11011111 111101110 11111101 10010101 00111101 11011101 11110101 100111010 11110101 11011110 11010101 01000101 111111011 100111001 11110101 11110101 1111100 11111101 11110101 11001101 1111011 01000101 10011011 01010111 11010101 11111001 100110111 11110111 11111111 11110101 11100011 11011100 01111111 01011111 11110101 00010101 11101101 01111101 11010101 11011001 11010101 11000101 11110111 11011001 11110111 11010111 10010101 11110101 11010111 01010001 01010110 01010101 10110101 1110101 1111111 11011101 11110101 010010110 11010101 0110110001 10111011 11010101 10011111 11110001 01011101 11111101 11010101 01010111 01000101 11010111 11010101 11110101 11110001 11111100 111101001 11010001 01110101 10111101 10010101 11110101 11010101 11000101 11111101 01101101 101011001 10010001 10010101 11011101 10011101 11010101 111101001 10111101 11010001 01010101 01010101 1101010 110010101 110000101 11100101 01011100 111101101 0101110 11110111 01011101 11101111 00010111 11110101 11000111 11010101 11011101 11001010 110101001 111101001 11010111 10110101 11111111 011001101 1101101 01010101 11000101 11110101 11010101 110010101 01110111 10011101 01011101 11100111 11100110 110010111 11010101 11101101 1101101 110110001 10110101 11100111 11110001 11010101 10011101 11110001 10010101 011011101 01110101 11010001 10010101 11010101 11110101 11100100 010001001 11110101 11100101 10000101 11010101 11100101 11010111 11010101 01010101 11010111 011101101 11110101 10010101 11010101 01011001 11000101 11110111 11011101 11011101 01010101 01010101 11011101 11110101 11110101 01010101 01111111 11010101 11010101 10110101 11001101 10010101 01001111 11000101 11000101 11111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 43
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 264
  • 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; of, and, ', to, his, he are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words the, then, but 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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