This is an analysis of the poem Tam Lin that begins with:
O I forbid you, maidens a',
That wear gowd on your hair,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa XbcX XDADXX XEFX CXgd hbXb gdXX XDADiX AXHX AjHj hidX hdeX abcX klil hdmX gbaX XDADXX XEFX CXgd hgXX cdeX kbdb delede beceXX nXed kbgX gXjX ngbg bghg nadada nkHk lbHb cXHl cXkb mheX hded kfhf dgbg dgef ClgX CdjdhX ddXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,6,6,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 111111 01111100 111101 11111100 111101 10111110 111100 10110011 0101001 111100101 0101001 11100100 111111 1110100 111101 11110110 101110 11110101 011101 101110111 1101111 1110110 111101 11110100 100101 10000011 110101 11111100 1111110 10110011 0101001 111100101 0101001 110001011 111111 1110101 010101 11110110 0100101 1110101 010101 11110110 11111 1111111 110101 110111011 11011 10111111 111111 10111110 1101110 1110101 111111 101001110011 10111110 101111110 101101 110101111 11011 101101101 111101 11111111 111111 11111111 010101 11010101 1101100 10110011 0101001 111100101 0101001 11100100 111111 1110100 111101 11110110 101110 11110101 011101 11110111 1101111 10110110 100111 11010101 1111100 10111111011 1011111 011101010 1100010 100111110 110101 11010101 110101 101010101 011101 11010101 111111 01110111 011111 101000101 1110101 11010100 110101 11111111 010010 1001010110 010100 11111110 111111 1010111110 010101 11111111 110111100 101111111 111111 10110101 0111010 101110110 111101 110100111 110101 101110111 111001 01111101 111101 101100110 111001 1111100 1101111 11010111 111001 101101110 0011110 11111111 111110 101100111 110101 11111111 111111 100111011 0011101 11111111 11111 101111011 000101 11100110 111001 101101111 110101 110111110 1111110 1010101 110101 111000110 0101101 10111110 110101 111111 110101 1110111 111101 1101100111 110101 111101101 111101 110110110 11001001 11101110 100111 101110111 11001010 11101110 11101011 10010111 1111111 111100101 01110 1011111011 1010111 111111111 11011110
- Amount of stanzas: 42
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 182
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, my, she, and, day, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, wi, my, she, out are repeated.
The author used the same words four, if, and, they'll, out at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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