This is an analysis of the poem The Legend Of Sir Guy that begins with:

A pleasant song of the valiant deeds of chivalry atchieved by that noble knight Sir Guy of Warwick, who, for the love of fair Phelis, became a...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a abcb bdbX ecfc XgXg Xhih XhXh ffaf XcXc jcXc XidX cGXX XGXX Xcbc ebgb jXeX Xcdc XXdf caea XXXi Xebe Xcfc eXXX XXcb Xhfh cbbX XchX cbXX XXXX XXXi jidi ecXc XbeX kcfc ckbk Xeie
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101001010100100111011101011010110010101100101010110010 11011101 11011111 11011101 11011001 11111101 01010111 11011111 11110111 1110101 01010101 101100101 01110101 11011111 01010101 01010100 11110001 101010111 10110101 11100101 1110101 111101010 11110101 01010110 01110011 011111001 01110101 11100101 110011011 11110010 1111101 010010010 0101011 1110101 010100001 0101101 01010101 11010100 11010101 11010101 1101110 10000101 01111001 1101011 11000101 11000101 01111001 1101011 11000101 11000101 101011001 11011001 11011001 11010011 11011101 11010001 1111011 11110101 1101110 1101011 01010010 01011101 01110101 11011101 01111111 1111010 11001110 1111011 11000101 11010101 11000101 1001101 11011101 111010010 110101010 1001100 01011111 11010100 01010101 1101011 01001011 11010110 11010111 1101101 111100101 11011001 1111110 10011010 0101010 11001101 0101010 11100111 0101111 11110101 01010111 11010101 110010111 10010101 01010111 10011001 1001010 1101111 0101111 10110101 1110110 10010101 11010011 11010101 11001111 01001000 1100110 10111110 1101110 11010101 11011111 11110101 01111001 101111001 10010101 1110101 01111101 1110111 01011101 1110111 111101 11011111 11111111 11000101 1111110 11010001 01111101 01111101 11011111 11010101 011101001 1101011 01111101 11010101 11000101 111110001 01011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 36
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 141
  • 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, for, in, i, to, and, my are repeated.

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

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

    The poet repeated the same word viewe at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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