This is an analysis of the poem An Abc that begins with:

Incipit carmen secundum ordinem litterarum alphabeti.
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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXaXXXX XbXbXXbX cXXXXXXX XXXcXcXa bdbXXXeX XXXXXeXe XbXbXfbf fXfXXXXX XXXXXXXX XgbggXXX XXXXXcXc XXXXhaXX XbcbXXbX XXXXXhXX XXcXXiXi XbXbbfXX dXdXXXXX XXbXXXXd XjXXjcjc XcXXXXaX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX fkXkkXXj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001010010010001000 01011101 0111011110 0110010111 10010011010 0111010010 1110110100 1101110010 10011110100 111101101 1111111101 1111110010 1011110111 110101100 1001001101 1111010101 11010111100011 1001101101 111111100 1101011010 111101010 010111000 1111110110 110101100 1100110101 10111101000 1111011101 1111101010 1101010101 010110110 1011010101 0101101101 11111111010 10111010001 110101101001 11010001001 1101010110 1111100010 1101110101 111011101 0101111110 111110011 1101010101 1001111110 1101111101 1111010111 110111011 1100111011 1011010101 10011101110 0101001101 11010101010 1111001101 1111111111 1111011001 1101011101 0110111111 111111101 100101110 1001011101 01011100100 0100100011 1101011111 111111010 1111010001 1101111110 111101010 110110010 111110110 11010100100 1101100101 10110111101 1111110111 1000100011 1001110011 110101011 111101001 1101011111 011111100 1111111110 1100111110 101111110 10011101010 1111010111 1111011010 1110010010 101111111 1111110110 01011110101 1011010101 1001110011 11011001000011 1101111110 0101011101 1101101010 1100011110 1101100011 1010110101 1001010011 11001110101 111101011 101001100 111001111111 11111101011 11011110111 1101010111 1101011110 110001010 1111010110 001011010 01011111101 01100101110 11111010111 1011111010 1011010111 110011011 1101110101 1101111101 11011101101 1101111111 1100110111 1010111110 111011111 1111010101 1011010111 111011111 111011011 111111100 100111011 101101101 11001100100 1111100011 1100010100 1001110101 111111111 1100101100 011101110 1011111011 101110010 1001101101 1111010110 0101111000 01011100010 1011110010 11110001101 1001111010 1111000010 011110011 101111101 0101001101 1101100111 1111011111 1111110111 10111100100 110100001 0100111110 1111111110 1111011010 1010111110 1100111110 1111010110 1011100110 010101010 11110011 110110110 111011100 1101111110 111111100 0111100110 1011000110 1111010110 1111110001011 1111110101 1101010111 1101010011 0111111111 111010111 101100101 011011001 1001011101 111101101 110111111 100101010 110101101 01000110101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 24
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 315
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 186
  • 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; of, my, in, thou, he, shal, to, for, that, us, and, pitee, so are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, o, who, of, and, that are repeated.

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