This is an analysis of the poem The Life And Death Of Tom Thumb that begins with:
In Arthur's court Tom Thumb did live,
A man of mickle might ;...
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbbdbd dededfff aghg caia hjbj giXi bibidggg akfk lmfc dddc fhdn heoeohph ghfh dbob qgpg qbXb fhbhgccc ichc hchc dbdb fdXd dkckbkok iqgq dhdh bdpd bXbd gcbchbqb bkgk krbb jgsg gaea Xdddsdqd riri bhrh bblb Xbcb dcacgaka bege cbhb bdpd ocdc gqqqodXd obfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,4,4,4,4,8,4,4,4,4,8,4,4,4,4,8,4,4,4,4,8,4,4,4,4,8,4,4,4,4,8,4,4,4,4,8,4,4,4,4,8,4,4,4,4,8,4,4,4,4,8,4,4,4,4,8,4,4,4,4,8,4,4,4,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 010101 01010101 110101 01011101 110001 11110101 110101 01010101 010101 11111101 111101 01110011 01101 110101010 010101 10011101 010101 00011010 110101 01110101 110111 11010111 010011 11110110 011101 11111111 0100111 11010111 010111 011101110 010100 10110111 110111 11010101 111011 11010101 111001 10010101 1001001 01111101 010111 11011100 010101 01101101 010101 11111101 101101 01110101 010111 01001101 100101 01001101 100101 01110101 0111000 11010101 1000101 01010001 010101 11110111 110101 110111001 110101 11110101 011101 11001101 111000 01111101 010101 01010001 010111 010010011 011101 11110111 010111 01010101 010101 11101101 101111 1111011 010111 11010101 011101 01010101 0100111 11110101 111101 11010101 010101 01101001 010111 11101110 110101 10011101 110111 11011101 010101 00010101 01011 11000101 000101 11010110 100111 11010111 010101 10010101 110101 11110101 110101 10010101 001101 11010101 110101 11111111 010101 11010101 111101 11111101 111101 01111111 110101 110100101 010001 01110101 010001 11100101 11001 01111001 1101001 11111111 010101 11010111 110101 11101101 110111 11010101 110101 11111111 111101 01011101 110101 01000101 110101 11011101 110111 11111101 011101 11000101 010111 00010101 110111 01100101 010101 10010111 111111 11010011 011111 11000101 1010101 10010101 011111 11010101 010111 11010111 1100001 01011111 111101 11011101 101101 11111101 010111 11010100 0100101 11111101 010101 01010111 010001 11110101 010111 01101101 010101 11010101 110101 11000111 011101 11111101 110101 10011101 111101 01010111 010101 11010101 110101 010010101 010001 10010101 110101 11110101 110111 11011101 010101 01010111 010101 11001111 011111 11000110 010001 11110101 001101 010111010 110101 11000101 111101 11010101 111011 01000101 010101 11010101 011111 01110111 010101 10110011 100101 11011101 110111 11010101 101101 11010111 110101 01110001 110100 11011101 110001 01110101 010111 01010101 010101 10111001 001101 11011100 11011 11010101 011101 10110101 110111 11010111 110100 01001101 110101 01001101 110101 11110101 110101 11110101 010101 11110101 010110 10011101 010001 110100101 111101 110010101 010101 11110111 110111 11011101 100101 10010101 111111 11000101 101101 11110101 001101 11001101 110101 10011101 010111 11010101 110111 11111101 110101 11110101 110001 11010111 110101 01011101 011101 010101101 010101 01010101 100101 00010101 101111 11000101 010101 01110111 110101 110101011 110111 01110111 110101 0101011 110111 11011100 110101 11000101 010101 01010101 010101 01000101 110111 10010101 111001 01011100 111111 11110101 110101 10010001 111101 11010101 111101 01011101 1100011 11110101 010101 01111101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 67
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 328
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, his, so, and, for, him, in, sir, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, for, and, the are repeated.
The author used the same words his, for 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 here is repeated).
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