This is an analysis of the poem The White Ship Henry I. Of England.—25th November 1120 that begins with:
By none but me can the tale be told,
The butcher of Rouen, poor Berold.... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: AXBCCBbbcccdeebbbaaaaaffddgghhiXeejjjaakkkkccllbbjjaakkhhmaannbbkkeeoooccbbaacciiiiicccooccgXXgXejjbbbhhccjjjggffppXhmccppeeaaakkeepppggcdaakkkooAXBCCBggbbjjcccaaggeebbggbbbbbcceebbccqqhhcccffaaaabXhXbbcceeeggeeehmbbbeeiiiaaccaaeeefXccXceeaaiiccaaXhlfiipp
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 279,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110101 01001110 111101101 101011101 1011011111 011111101 110101111 110010111 110111111 111110101 110010111 11010100 011111101 10101101 010111011 1110101101 101010101 110010111 01110101 111100101 110100101 11110101 110011101 01010010 1100100100 110010100 111110111 1011011101 110100111 11011101 11101001 010100100 1110010111 010110101 111101001 011110101 1110101001 111011101 1010010101 11100111101 01100101101 1101110011 110110111 011101001 010101101 0111001101 101011100 1011111011 111110101 111101101 110100011 0111001011 11111101 011100101 010001101 010110101 0100110101 11010110 111010101 011100101 011010101 0010111011 01011111 1010101001 111111001 1010101111 1111001101 1110010111 010101011 011100101 0111111101 111011101 1011100101 010110111 00101001101 101100111 11110101001 1110101001 101110101 10111101001 0010111101 110010111 011111011 011010101 011011101 1110010101 0110101111 110111001 101110101 111010111 011101111 11101101 111110111 011110101 1010101101 011101110 1010100111 110110101 010010101 010010101 011101101 101110110 011101101 101110101 110011111 111111111 100100101 101101011 110011111 1110010101 01010101 110111001 110111101 0010011111 101100101 11011010 1111111001 1110111110 110111101 111111111 110010111 1011100101 101011111 1111100101 10111101 10010111111 010100101 111100001 110010101 110011101 1110101001 110011111 0110101001 1101110111 011110101 101101001 010110101 11010100 11010111 1111101011 111011111 110100011 1010111101 110110101 1111110101 111110101 01001110 111101101 101011101 1011011111 011111101 11011100101 101111101 010111001 0111001011 110111101 011100011 11011001 110110110 011110101 10011101 11010101 110101001 11010101 11101011 1010011101 111010111 0010110101 111110101 111100101 011110111 101101011 100111101 0101001101 1100110101 110110111 11111111 111100011 111100101 111100101 1101011 111011111 011010101 1101111001 1111111111 110010101 111111101 111100111 111111111 110111101 110101011 110010101 111110101 111101111 110011101 111111011 1010110101 1101111100 111111111 11111101110 110101111 1110100101 110101101 111011111 111101111 111111101 1111100101 0111100101 111111101 111111001 111101001 111100111 10011101 011011110 110011100 1111101101 10011101 111101101 11010101 111111101 111101101 111101010 011100111 111110101 110101111 11111101 111011111 110100101 11011111 101011111 011111111 101111101 011101010 110111101 111110111 11101011 101011111 111110101 10111001001 111111101 010111111 111101001 11110101 110011101 111011111 101100111 110111101 111010111 001010101 111010100 101110101 1101101001 101110101 101101101 11010101 101101110 111011101 111111101 111100100 110101101 111100011 1100111111 110010101 11110101 110010011 110110111 110111001 101111111 1101101101 01111111 1100101011 001111001 10110101 111110101 01001110 111101101 101011101 1011011111 011111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 11407
- Average number of words per stanza: 2232
- Amount of lines: 279
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his, ship, as, that, he, her, i, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, with, the, i, he are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines whelm is repeated).
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