This is an analysis of the poem The Legend Of King Arthur that begins with:

Of Brutus' blood, in Brittaine borne,
King Arthur I am to name;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXb XcXc XaXX dXeX XdXd XXXf dXXX XdXd XgXg Xede XXhX bXXX giXi bXhX XXXX dfaf XXXX XXcd dcfc hfdX dXff ijaj Xdfd ahXh abXb
  • 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,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010101 1101101 11001100 1101101 01011110 110101 01011101 111101 001101001 110101 10110101 111010 010000101 1100110 10010101 1101100 111111010 1101101 0111010 11101 100100100 110110 01000101 110101 11110111 11111 11011111 10011 11010001 111001 110111010 110011 1001010 110111 1001001100 111111 110110 11011 1101101 110001 10101100 110001 10110101 110111 110010001 110101 1010101010 110111 110010101 011101 01010100 11101 11010101 11101 11001111 010101 111011111 110100 1110100100 1111100 11011101 110111 11011001 110111 11010011 101101 010101110 0111001 11110110 110110 11111101 0100011 111101101 1010011 01110101 110101 11110001 110101 01001101 010101 11110101 110111 101010101 110111 11010101 110001 10010101 111101 1101010 010111 11110011 111101 110100101 111001 111111010 011101 111011101 010111 1111110 01001
  • Amount of stanzas: 25
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 100
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; i, of, with, to, and are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words in, and, there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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