This is an analysis of the poem The Boy And The Mantle that begins with:

In Carleile dwelt King Arthur,
A prince of passing might;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb dXeX fgXX hbXb aXgX XciX Xjfj aege kXbk XXce FXgX lbib cjaX feme abXb XeiX mnmX Xgeg Fnan bbcb fege bceX XgnX cjfj ggag lXac febe mXmn mgdX lgkg FhcX fXdb XeoX XcaX Xgbg febX cXpX cgfg pcfC Cbbb gkgk gccX aeoe Xgmg fXic Xeme gggg gbXX ecac cefe gggX
  • 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,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101110 010101 11010101 0101001 1111010 011101 11011101 011010 011010 011101 0101110 110010 110101 010101 110100100 101101 1111110 110011 11001101 111101 1101110 111111 11110101 110101 1100010 010111 1001010 010111 1111110 10101 11101101 110111 110101 1110010 110010101 110101 11110100 010111 0111110 100101 1111010 111001 01010101 110110 110111 010111 1101010 010101 111101 110101 1011110 111111 111010 1110111 1101010 0010101 11010010 110101 11010101 110101 11101010 010111 11110111 010011 1111010 110011 1101010 111110 0101010 010111 11000101 010101 1111010 010101 0110010 11011 1100101 110101 1011110 011101 111010 110111 10011111 0010101 111111 01001001 11000101 110001 1101010 110101 01111101 0101010 010101 010111 1100010 010111 1101110 111111 01001010 110101 1100010 101110 1111110 1010101 111010 010101 1001010 0010101 1101010 110011 1101010 111101 1101010 110101 01110101 1111110 0101010 010111 11010101 010001 1111010 110101 010101 010101 1111110 111111 110110001 1100111 111110 100111 11111001 011101 1111010 101111 0101010 110101 1111010 1101001 11010101 01001001 10111010 011101 1101110 011100 11110011 010111 1110100101 1101010 111101 111111 11010010 111111 11010101 011101 10110101 110101 110101 110011 110010101 010101 011101 110101 11110101 111001 11010101 110001 1110111 110101 1101110 110111 11111101 110101 1111010 1101001 11010100 110101 1111110 001101 1111010 110101 11011100 111101 11011100 110101 1101010 111011 1001010 111010 1101101 101101 11010110 110101 1100101 110101 1011110 011011 111011 010111 11110111 010101 1101110 110101 110110101 0101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 51
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 204
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; and, her are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word thus 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 blade, bold are 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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