Lay le Freine by Anonymous: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Lay le Freine that begins with:

We redeth oft and findeth ywrite -
And this clerkes wele it wite -...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaabcddXeffgXXhggXXiiXiXjXXXXXXXkbbXlXmnXXldXXXnXXXXXmXaaXXXXXXXXkkXXoXXXXXoXXikXpjXXXoggiXXXiiXnXXXkXkXXlniXaapXbXbXdXXXXXXpaXoXdXXXXXXXXiXXkXXXfXllkkqqkXXXXXXlXoXXllllnXXXXjkXllbbXXjplXXXnnXXXkXXlXiXkklXXgXiaaXXlloXaXXniXaaXiXXXXnXXhXXiiXXhhXXaaXkXnXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 408,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111010 1010101 1011010 1100101 11011101 11011110 11010101 01100111 110101100 11011010 0110111 1111111 010111 010011101 1101110 010100110 110110111 110011101 10010011010 11111111 1110100101 1011101 1001010 1011101 010101010 0111100 110101 111110 001110110 11110110 110011 110011101 111101001 11110101 11111101 11100101 0110110 110010011 111111001 1111111 11111101 11111101 0100111110 11011010 1111001 010100011 11011111 1011111 11111011 1110101 10100100010 1110001010 110010010010 1111110 01101111 1101011 110010011 1110101010 110100001 0111110 1000100 101110 0110111 11010010 11101100 11110100 0110101 1110111 101101010 1111110 11111101 10111001 010011100 010111100 11000100 01101010 11101011 101110 1101010 1010110 11010101101 011001110 11001001 110011 1111110 1100101 010001110 100111111 10111011 111001101 1001110 0101010110 10010111 0110111 10111111 10011001 11110100 11111011 11110111 11101101 1111101 1011101 100110111 110101 111110100 1111010 11111111 1111100 111100011 111010010 1110111 01101101 1101111 111111100 11001010 10111110 11011111 11111110 01010101 101101111 010010101 11100011 110111001 11010101 11111110 110100001 11110101 1111011111 10111101 10010101 1111010011 11010011 11010101 11011010 0100101010 11110010 1101100 11110100 110101010 1101011 1111101 00101101 110111101 10010011 0110111 111001100 1110011 1111101 101001 010110111 110110101 111101101 110111 1011101 1101101 1111110 111101 01010111 11110111 1110100 110010110 01011111 01010110 1110011 1111110 11100100 1111101 1101101 100001 11010100 1011000 10111101 01011111 1111111 11000101 01011011010 10110111 00110110 11000111 0101011 01011111 11001001 01011010 11011101 010001010 11010001 10111001 111011101 011110 1110001 0110001 1111010 110110010 11111101 10111010 101001011 11011001 11010101 11001101 1100101110 10110111 11111110 1101101 1011111 101101 110110 11011011 11010011 1101110 0100010111 10111001 0110010 110011 01010011 001111 101101 01011011 101101110 0101100001 101110 11010110 001001101 1001111 11001100 010100111 0011001 010110110 11010010 110101110 11001011 010010001 10010010 10111001 1110110 0111101 01011100 01011111 110101101 0110111 010101011 11011010 010101111 10011110 1011010110 01010101 01010110 10110011 11101101 11110011 11111111 111011 0110111 111110 11111001 1110110 11100110 1111101 1111111 11100110 11001011 11011100 11010100 01010101 1110011 110011101 1111011 1111101 0101010 0100100111 110011101 1111111 0110010 1111110 111010 0101101 111001010 110010100 0010011001 100110010 110101100 1011110 10110010110 11110101 1110110 11101111 11011101 1111111 0101101 1100110 1001011 01010101 111111 10111110 010111101 11010110 011111101 01011011 11101111 011011 111111 101011 10100110 1110011 1110111 11110010 1101111 01111111 1111111 11110111 111110101 01011011 11011001 11010101 1010101 1110111 010010111 1101011 011111 111100001 11010111 1110100 1010100 1111101 11111110 010110010 1011111 10111110 0010010 10101010 1001100 011010010 0110110 101111 111111011 0111101 11100101 11010110 01001101101 0100011001 101010 1101011 011110 1101011011 110110100 10101101 101101011 10100110 1011011 0111111 01110101 111110001 10011101 1011110 110111111 010010101 11010101 11111111 10110101 10010101 11010101 110011101 111000111 10010111 10110011 10010111 1010111 11010101 01110110 0110101 10100111 1101001101 1111010 01001101 1110011 11110101 101001001 1111001 1101101 1010110 110010001 11110101 100101011 11011101 111100100 1101001001 111101010 11011111 1110111 010111 1111101 100101110 1111000011 110100111 11111011 0010100000 10011101 1000101001 11101101100 0110101 100100101 11010101 11011010 0010101111 00010101 111100111 00101011 110101101 0110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 13559
  • Average number of words per stanza: 2637
  • Amount of lines: 408
  • 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; of, and, sum, in, ', that, ich, sche, it, his, for, or, hir, he, to, her are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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