This is an analysis of the poem The Troubadour And Richard Coeur De Lion that begins with:

The Troubadour o'er many a plain
Hath roamed unwearied, but in vain.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabcddeeffXXff aaffffffggbb hhaaffbXffiiiiaajjiiggii hhbcaahhaXaa hXfff fafX ibib daikdX lXlX ij biX afaf klXX dedX aaaa gagX fgfg kakXXffbbeeggjjiihh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,12,24,12,5,4,4,6,4,2,3,4,4,4,4,4,4,19,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101101001 11100101 1010010101 11010110 01100101 111010100 011110111 111010100 010101001 111010101 11011111 11100101 01010101 11001000 11110101 11110001 111010101 1111100101 010101101 1010001 101110101 1101100101 01010101 101010101 10110101 110100101 111111011 1010100101 110110101 011101001 11010101 0101101001 10110101 1010111001 01010101 1010011000 010100111 1010101111 100110101 01010011 110000101 01010101 110111010 11001001110 110100101 1011100101 01010101 101011111 110011101 111010101 11110101 011100101 111101010 010011010 11110111 11010100 0111010101 101101101 10110111 010100101 111010111 010010100 1101100101 10110101 01001 1100110101 010100101 10100100111 0110101 101111101 010101 110111111 1111010 1110101101 1100101 11101111011 1111101 11111011010 11010101 10111 1 1010 1001010 111100101 1010111 111011111 110101 1101010111 1010101 1 10101111 110101 110100101 00110111 1111101101 0110101 110010111 0101101 101111001110 0100101 111011111 0010011 111101101 10101100 011110101 10010001 101110101 101110101 111011101 1100111 110100111 010111 111111101 0101111 111110101 1111111 1011100101 101000101 101111111 110110 11111111 01000111 11011101 11010101 010010001 011010001 010100101 01110001 11010111 10110111 010110101 11110101 101010111 11010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 135
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, have, and, to, away are repeated.

    The author used the same word 'i 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.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase away connects the lines.

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