The Marriage Of Sir Gawaine by Anonymous Olde English: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Marriage Of Sir Gawaine that begins with:

Part the First
King Arthur lives in merry Carleile,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXX XXXX aXXX acXc XbXb defe bgXX hXXX ibjb XeXX Xghg XXhX XghX XghX aXXX Xbcb cBXb dXXX XbhX aXjX aXXX akXX eaXX XXXb XldX XXcX XbhX XXXX cBXX bccX kbaX XhXX mXcX dbkX hcec eaXX gXlX Xefe XXXX c XbXX kcXX bXdX Xcec lnaX XXcX Xbob XXdX XbmX XXdc XaaX Xb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101 110101010 1100001 11011100 111101 11011100 111101 110100111 101111 01001101 011101 01011001 111111 11100101 111101 01010110 110101 11011110 110101 01100101 1111111 11100101 101111 1110100 110101 1101111 111101 10111001 100010 11010101 11011001 11011101 101111 11011111 110101 10011111 11011 11111110 110111 11111101 0110110 1110110 111111 11111101 111111 11111000 110111 11111101 1101010 11110110 100101 11111101 1110110 11011101 1101001 11011101 110101 1111101 110101 010100111 110101 11111110 111101 11011111 1101011 10110101 110111 10100110 0101101 11111100 110110 0011010110 1111010 11011101 110101 110100101 111110 11111111 100110 11001101 111110 11110111 110111 1111110 11011 01011101 110001 11011101 1101001 110111001 11011 101110110 110110 01111110 01111 11111001 111101 010110110 010011 0111111 111101 01010101 01111 11101101 110110 1111011 111101 11110111 111101 111111011 111011 1111111 1011110 11100101 110111 11010101 1111010 11010101 110101 0101011 11111 10101111 101101 1111111 11011 111110 111111 11110011 110110 11010101 111111 11110101 100101 11110111 110101 10011111 111101 11111101 111111 11110111 010011 111111001 11011 101110110 110110 1101100111 001110 111110011 1111110 1110111 010101 11110110 1101001 11101110 0101101 1110111111 00110010 1010 1001110 101111 11111100 111101 1101101101 110111 11110101 110101 11010111 111101 11010101 1101001 11011111 111001 11101011 111111 11011101 110011 1101111 11000010 1101110 11100101 1101101 1101110 11110110 110111 0110111 111111 11011110 01111 0111110 1101010 1101111 110101 11001111 111101 1101100110 1010110 010111110 111111 111111110 010101 110100110 110101 11011101 110011 11000010 110101 10110111 111101 11011101 0010111 111100110 1001101 11110110 110101 11101101 110101 1010110110 10111010 11101110 110101 1010110110 1011101 11011110 1011011 110010111 11000010 110011011 1010110 110101011 0111010 11111101 1111110 11111100 110111 1101110 111101 1010111100 1111010 110101101 110111 011101 11000110 1101100110 1010011 1111111 11011010 11111101 111011 11110101 1100001 11100111 110110 11011110 1101110 11011101 110111 110101101 110111 110100111 0100111 01001101 110111 11011101 100101 11111011 0111011 1101111 101101 110100111 11011110 11111111 011111 1111111 0101101 110101011 111101 10111111 1101110 11111001 110111 111011101 0111110 1111010110 010111 01111111 1111010 11101101 111011 0111111 1111110 1101110 1011111 11111101 111101 1101111 110101 1101011 111001 1101100111 0011001 11001011 110101 111110111 010101 1111111 111001 110011111 110101 0111100111 1111111 1111000101 111111 111011101 0111011 11010101 110101 11111011 11001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 80
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 318
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; and, boone, my, yield, thee, his, rode, some, her, thou, thy, all, have, wee'll, sir, that, ', to are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words her, sir, then 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 ' is 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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