This is an analysis of the poem Merlin that begins with:
“Gawaine, Gawaine, what look ye for to see,
So far beyond the faint edge of the world? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcddefegX fhacifbbjXbbcfcXcccbkdXhiidlcjbibdad XkcbaclibfXdmddkbnodlcX Xhafidpcafj abklXagfeelnioibfpdc fjjgfihllhegbqj bqcXXchdjXdbkm fXbddjgchi kcfapabXddXbhjddpfabaXXbjjdaaip jaflablfbkcdbcpfapl XgaXgdldidddklafagX gmccgXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,36,23,11,20,15,14,10,31,19,19,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1010111101 1101011001 1101010100 01110100110 1101011111 1111011101 11010001001 1101000101 10111101110 1111011010 1100110101 0111111111 0101010101 0101110101 1100110101 1111010101 0101111101 01010100011 11110101010 1101010110 0101010101 11010011101 1111100101 1011110101 01010101010 11011111010 110010001010 01011111110 01010101001 0110010111 01011111101 0101010011 10111101110 1101110101 1011111101 10011011101 1111110111 1111110100 1111101101 0111011111 1111101011 1110110111 1011111101 01110101100 11110101111 11111101 10 01001010101 1111110101 11111101010 10101100101 1100110110 1111111111 0101111101 1111011111 1101011100 0101010100 1111010111 0100110101 1000110011 1101111111 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1111011001 11001011101 0101010011 01111011111 1111011010 110011110 0101011111 1101001000 1101011101 1101111101 1100110111 1100011101 1111110101 11100111001 0111011111 0100010011 01100111001 1111010011 0101110101 1101110001 0101001000 1011111111 1010101011000 1101110001 1101000101 1111010101 11011111010 10111011101 1111010101 1111010111 11000111110 1101111011 0101010101 1101010011 01000101010 110101 1111 0101010100 1101010011 0100110100 01010001001 01010111010 1011101111 0101010001 1101000101 11110101011 1100110001 11110111010 11111101010 1101001101 1001000101 1001010101 1111000101 01011101110 1111111101 1101010010 00110111010 1111000101 1101010111 0101111111 11010111110 1001111101 0101010101 0111110101 111101 101010 110010010100 1101000101 1011010111 11010011001 1100010111 1101010100 1101010101 11010111111 1111111101 1111111111 0111010100 1111101111 1001110111 1110010101 0100110111 0101111101 0101000100 11111101010 1111111101 0101011100 110100101001 110101010100 1111001100 110111111 0101110001 1101110101 1101011101 11001100111 1111111111 1101011111 110100100 1111011000 1111111011 0111010111 1111111101 0100011111 1111011101 0101111101 01010010111 110001 1011 1111100111 11110101110 1111010100 1101010111 1101111101 1001010101 1111010101 0100110111 1101101011 10111001010 1001010100 1100010101 11111101010 0101000101 11001111010 11001111101 110111101 1011 111100 1101011100 11000111001 1011011100 0101010100 11110101001 1111011101 0111010001 11001010001 1111111111 1101010111 1111110111 0101111111 1111110101 0101111101 10011010101 1011010001 1101010100 01001010111 11010100010 11010100111 0100010101 01010001010 01111101110 1111010100 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 742
- Average number of words per stanza: 142
- Amount of lines: 215
- 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; ye, merlin, king, long, live, and, kings, he, to, on, him, i, see, it, you, for, of, knew, that, be, young, fancy, what are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, i, and, that, he are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines king, fool are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase farewell connects the lines.
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