This is an analysis of the poem Virelal that begins with:

Alone walking, In thought pleyning,
And sore sighing, All desolate,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa aXab bcbc XXXX XXXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01100110 11101100 11000110 111011011 10000111 11111010 11111100 01011101 01011111 10010110 10111101 1101111 11110101 11100100 11111110 10100010 10101100 01101111 11110100 11101111 010
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.

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