This is an analysis of the poem To Robin Goodfellow that begins with:
I see you, Maister Bawsy-brown,
Through yonder lattice creepin';... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXXXXa aXXaXcdc dXaefgXg XXfXbefe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 1101010 111110111 11101110 01110101 1101010 110110101 101001010 11110101 10111010 1010110111 111011010 01011101 10101010 111110101 1111010 1111101 1101110 11111101 1101010 11011111 1111110 11101111 0101010 11111011 011110 101011111 110111 11010101 1111110 010110101 11101110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; you is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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