This is an analysis of the poem Ronceval that begins with:
O woe's me, ye people,
And woe, brave warriors all,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX bcXX cabX cdXX dcbc XaXa cabX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110 1111001 10100110 11100 1110110 101101 0100011 1001100 110110 111001 101010 11100 11110 11100 1110100 10111 101100 10111 11010 010101 1101100 101101 00110110 110111 0001010 10111 1101110 11100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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