This is an analysis of the poem Friar Pedro's Ride that begins with:

It was the morning season of the year;
It was the morning era of the land;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abababcX cdcdcddX efeXXfgX hfhfhXii JKjKjkcc icicicbb bibibiaa kfkfkfbX lblblbdm ndnmnmii kokokoXf bbbXbbdX iXipipll JKjKjkii ililiXdd igigigfX afafafXb nknknkgg cXcXcXda kllllXcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101010001 0101010001 0100011111 1001111001 1100111111 1111010101 0111010101 1011111110 1001001011 101111000110 1101000101 01100100010 1101110111 11110111010 11110101010 11010100010 0111010101 01010111010 1101110111 01110101000 1101010110 01010111010 11111100110 1101010100 0101010101 01011100010 0100110011 01010100110 0111011011 11000101100 11011001101 11010101010 11011100010 1101110101 11010100010 11010100100 11101111010 1101001101 1101100101 11010000101 1101011101 1001000111 1001011101 0101011101 1111011111 1101111001 0101110001 1101000101 1101110101 1101110101 1101010101 1110010101 0111010101 01001010101 1101101101 1101110001 0101010001 1111011101 1101010101 1011010101 010110101 1011010111 1110011101 1100101111 1111010101 01011101010 1101010101 11010101010 1001010101 110010101010 11010110010 10110101010 11001110101 11010111010 0111100101 1111100010 1111010111 01000101010 1111110111 0101110101 1101010101 0111001001 0111010101 1111001001 1011110101 1101110101 1011010110 1011010101 1001010101 1111010101 1001010101 11010101100 0101010101 1101011101 11000111110 0111010010 0101010101 1110010101 0101011101 1101010101 1111110101 0100111101 0101010101 0100010101 11011100010 1101110101 11010100010 11010100100 11101111110 0101000101 0111000111 1011110101 0101010101 10011001010 1001010111 01001010101 1001011111 01010111010 01011101110 01011101010 1101010101 11110111010 1111110101 10010001010 0001110001 10011101010 01010001010 01010101100 010010100111 11010101110 101110101 111000101010 0101010101 11011101010 01010101100 10110101010 0101010101 1101110101 0101010101 1101010111 1011000101 11011101001 11110101010 111001101010 1101011101 1101010110 0101011101 0101110010 1101011011 11010101010 11101101110 0101011101 0100110101 0101011101 1101110011 1101110101 1101010101 010010111000 1011111001 1101001011
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 346
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 160
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; of, in, and, to, he, saw, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, to, he, they, and, the, some are repeated.

    The author used the same words he, a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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