This is an analysis of the poem Martin Lightfoot's Song that begins with:
Come hearken, hearken, gentles all,
Come hearken unto me,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba cAca dAdX XAdX eaeX eXeX bfcf cAgX hahX hXfXXbaga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 110101 11110100110 11011001 111111 111111 1101101001 1100111 111101011 111111 10101101001 1111111 111101011 111111 1010111101 1111111 11110111 111101 111001111 010101 1101111011 1101111 1011101101 0010100 110011110 111111 110100011 1010001 111111 111111 11001111011 001010 11110111 1101001 111001101 010101 111111111 1111111 11101101001 1101101 110011110 0010111 10111011010 1100111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; hearken, he, ranged, true, you, and, thou, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words come, and are repeated.
The author used the same words then, he 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.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase he connects the lines.
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