This is an analysis of the poem The Rhyme Of The Four Strong Men that begins with:
In lands that are now forgotten,
In the old wild days of yore,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBcb defe cgbg Xaha acdc dada icac dcbc djcX khXX ecec hbab ecfc XlXX XXkX icac iefX ajaj iaXX Xbmb dcec mXfX ceie fefX ihdh djkj nkfk ccXc daXa kcfc cjaj dndn fada dceX bckX hacX dcmc fdid mded caia ilml XkbX acdc dcdcXibaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111010 0011101 0111110 111111 110110010 1100101 10101010 1100101 11111010 111101 01001011 1010101 11111010 111101 101110010 1100101 111010010 111101 1111110 111111 11110111 1010101 1101110 111111 11001110 0110101 11101010 1100101 111010110 111101 11001011 110101 101001010 1100101 111110110 111101 1110110 10100111 1110110 111111 11011010 1100101 111011010 0100001 111110110 10110101 1010010010 101101 111001010 100111 10010010 100101 11111010 11111101 1001110 111101 1011110 1111101 110110010 101001010 11111010 1100101 1010010010 111111 101110010 100101 11101010 1001010 1011010010 1100101 1010110010 0111001 1111011 10111111 111001010 001111010 11110010 11100101 1111110 111111 11101010 1110101 111100010 1111001 111110110 100110 11010110 00111101 101101010 1100101 101101110 10101101 101110110 1111111 101001110 1001010 101010010 011111 1101010 1011111 01010010 0101001 1110110 111011 1001011 101111 10010110 100101 111111010 0101001 11110010 110101 0111010 111101 110101000 1101101 111001010 10101 10110010 010111 11110010 1101101 11111010 1100101 11010010 110101 101110010 100111 001110010 101101 1110010010 00111101 1001110 110111 11101010 11111110 10000111 101111 1011010 1011110 11011010 101111 11001110 111101 101010111 101101 001001010 0100101 01110010 1101101 101011110 0100111 1101110 11111001 001010001 0100101 1111010110 111101 1101010 101111 101010111 101111 1101110 110111 101010010 0101111 10110011 10110111 111110010 1100101 11000110 111111 11001110 010111 1111010 100101 11110111 111111 0011111010 0011101
- Amount of stanzas: 45
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 180
- 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; to, and, should, one, thou, he, thought, his, they, o'er are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, and, by, they, he, his, fain, the, one are repeated.
The author used the same word and 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.
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