This is an analysis of the poem The Turnament Of Tottenham that begins with:

The Turnament of Tottenham; or, the Wooeing, Winning, and Wedding of Tibbe, the Reev's Davghter There.
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  • Rhyme scheme: a XXXXXXbXc dXXXXXXXX eeeeXdXXX ffffXXXXX XXXXXXXXg XeeeXaaaX cXXchXXXh eeXeafXfa eeeeXgggX XXXXcXaaX XXXXXXXXX eXXdXiiiX XXeXdjjjX XcXXjXbXX XXdkXddXX eeeeXdXXX XdXdXjjjX eeeXgXXXX fXXXXXXXX XXeXXXXXa XkXkXXXfX XXXlgXXXX XXXXXXXXX XcXXXcccX fXXXXXbXX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01000100101101100101101 011110001001 011011011 010001001101 001110001010 010111 010010 010010 001010 11001 01001001011 1110100010 1011010010 010001110100 110110 1110 11010 1110 110110 1011111011 11110111111 1001000011 11100101011 101 1001111 10111000 011 0110110 10110001111 1110011111 10010111011 10101111111 00111 111011111 11101010011 0101011100 110101 111001100110 101110101010 111110110100 111110111010 100100110 11100 101101 1110011 11111 10101100100 1101001001001 1011101100001 110111111101 11101 111111 1101111 111111 111010 111011111001 1111111011 11011001011 101001111111 11101 111110 101110 1110 110001 1110100011111 11101110001 110101001111 1010111011 1111 111101 111111 111111 11101 10101011111 1101100110001 1101111111 101101011111 11101 11001 101111 111111 1011 01101111001010 101011110110 1011111010010 101011001101010 1110111 1101111 111111 1110101 10100 1101110111110 111010111001 11111011 1101011001111 1111110 11110 111110 1110110 1111110 110111111111 1011100010001 11101110100 011111111101 11111 11010101 1010101 1110001 010100 110111011101 111100110110 1111110101 010111111011111 111001 111011111 111111 110111 110110 111011011 111011101101 11111011101 111110111011 111101 0110111 0111010 01010010 10101 110111011001 111111011111 11111011101 1011001110111 1111110 1111111 1011001 11000100 110110 110111011011 11110001101 100110011011 111111111011 111111 11111 111111 1110110 11110 11111011111 110110110101 10101000011 101010110010 110011 011101 01000011 1010001 101011 11111101111001 110100111101 11110110111 1110111101 111010 10101110 10101010 101101010 1101010 111001100110001 0110001100110 01001010010110 1101101111 110010 1011011 1111110 11001001 1101010 101110110101 111110111 11110101101 1111010111 1111110 111101 11010001 111011 11101 10111111 1111111111 111101101101 010011011111 11111 10111111 111010101 111111 110011 10101010111 01110111111 111100111110 1111001111 11011 101111 11101110 1111111 100101 11111011111 1010010010111 11011011011 011110010111 111110 1100101 11101111 111001111 1111000 1100100111001 11111101111 11111110111 10111001011 11111 11110111 111111 011111 000100 0111110101 11101110101010 101011111110 011010100101010 0101110 11101110 11101110 111101000 111100 111111000110 10011110100 11110101011 1101110101110 1011001 010010001 1100100 10110 01101
  • Amount of stanzas: 27
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 315
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 236
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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, ther, and, be, my, on, i, ', schal, al, wan, thay, he, sum are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, ther, and, for, he, i, a, sche, thay, wo are repeated.

    The author used the same words 'i, perkyn at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    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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