This is an analysis of the poem Clerk Saunders that begins with:
Whan bells war rung, an mass was sung,
A wat a' man to bed were gone,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb dXbX ebXX efXa XgbX ebbX ggdg XgaX fbcb eXXX bheh dedX eedi XEgi XEbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111111 01110101 110101010 01001111 1011010011 10111010 11111101 011111010 101111101 11111101 111010110 11111110 101001110 01011001 10111101 1110101 1011001011 11011101 11111101 111111110 101111111 11111101 111111010 1011011000 1011100101 110101011 110111010 011100101 10111001010 01011101 01010001 111101100 11110111 111100101 111001110110 1100111101 10111011110 111110 110011101 01101101110 01111101 11011101 101100110 10110101 10110111110 01101111 11011111 1111110 1001111110 1011111 1011111 110101 101011001 111101 11001111 1010100111 101011001 111101 01011101 1100110
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and, me, has, she, i, you, margret, thank, any, room, at, your, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words is, their are repeated.
The author used the same word cold at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word sleep at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Clerk Saunders;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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