This is an analysis of the poem Anelida And Arcite that begins with:

Thou ferse god of armes, Mars the rede,
That in the frosty contre called Trace,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaaXb XXXXcdX XeXeefX d XXX cgXgXcX XhXhXcX XXXXXaa aXXXXcX iXjkklX XXXmmii XXXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXee XXXXXij mXmmXXX XfXXXXX XX XXXnX cXcXXXX iXXXXXX XoXXoXc XXXXXXX XXXXmXX ffXffXb XXXXXcc cXckkXX XXXXfXX cXXXXXX XeXXeXh XXmXXXk XXkXXpp XXXXXcX X X X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,1,3,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,2,5,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,1,1,9,1,9,9,9,9,16,9,1,9,9,9,9,16,9,1,9,1,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11101101 10010111 0111010101 1001110011 0110010101 0011111011 1110010011 1111010011 0101010010 0110010111 0110001110 111111111 111101001010 1101010110 0100011100 1100101101 110011010 10010100001 1001011111 1111110101 11011110110 010 1101010110010 101000101010 10001010110010 110010111 011011101 01010000111 100110011 110110111 1101001011 11010011010 100101010 0101100101 010011010001 1110101001 100111100111 100111100101 1111010110 1000010101 01011101 01001101 1001011011 1101010111 010001001 010011011 0011101001 0101001010 11010110 0110000110 1111010101 011011101 0110001110 11110100101 011010010 11010101110 01111001001 010101110101 1110110111 11001011011 11100110 100010010 01111100 11010101001 0111100101 110011111 111110001 1101111 110111101 11011010 110100110 01010110001 1111011111 0101000110 0111100001 0100101110 110110011 100111011 10011100110 110101101 010100011 1101010101 01010101100 1101010010 1101000100 1110100110 11011101010 00111110010 0101101101 1111000101 11110011111 11001110101 1001010101 1110110101 11110101010 111111101 1111110101 100101101 1001001111 1111110110 1111111101 1101011101 11000110100 1101110101 11111110 100111111 0101111111 1101010011 11010011101 0101100110 1110111111 110110111 1011110010 1111011101 1111010101 1111011101 110011011 111010101 111110110111 111111011 1111010001 1101010010 10101110 1111110101 1111011001 101110001 11111111010 111100111 110111110 10111010 1101111000 1101011101 110010111100 1111011001 0110110001 1100110010 111101011 1111110101 1110010111 111110011 1111101111 1111010011 1101100001 1110110101 0110001000 1101110111 11100100 1101010111 1110111001 1111001111 1101100001 11000110111 1101110101 1101101110 01011111011 110110101 010111010 1111011111 011010111 1111010010 1111111111 111011010 111101001 1111011011 1101110111 011111001 111101101 1111010101 111101011 1101100101 1101100001 1110110101 1101010100 011110101 100010100 1101010110 1010110111 1101101111 1101011100 11100111111 111111111110 11100100010 01101101111 011100111 110111101101 1101011111 0110101110 110101011 110011101110 010111111 110111111 11111010010 111111101 111110101 11110100100 1111011111 110110111 111101101 1111110101 101111011 1000110101 1001000110 110111101 1111101101 010110010 0111010111 1111111111 1110100010 1101010100 11111011111 01011100010 1101010100 100111111 1110010110 010010000101110 1 1100010100 01010100110 111011101 110010111 1100100100 1110011011 1101001111 1101110100 1011110111 1 1111111101 1111011111 1111110101 111110111 1110111111 1111111111 101011111 111001111 1101010101 1011011100 1011101100 100111111 01101100101 1101100101 1111110111 1111111110 10111010000 1010110111 111101011 1011111101 1110011101 1101011101 110111101 1101101111 11110100111 111111111 1111011101 0110011100 1101010110 1100001110 1110011100 0111110110 1100100011 01011101111 1101011100 0111111101 1101111 1100010 0110100 1101011010 01111101 1101011 01011101 111101111 11110110 1111011 111101010 110110001 10111101 1011101 1101011 1101111 111111111 111110011 010111101 111010111 110110011 1111111110 1110110111 1110110101 111011111 100 111100101 1101111101 1001011001 1101111011 1001111011 111101101 1111001111 1100111001 11111100011 1110111111 111101101 11011011000 1111111101 111100101 11101110 11100100100 1110011111 101110110 111111100 1101111101 111010011 111111111 1101111101 1011011101 1101011011 111010111 1110111101 1111101010 1111110011 111011010 100101100 1001011111 11110111111 1001000101 010111011 0101110110 11011110 11111011 11110110 111101011 11111111 11110111 10111001 0111110100 1001110 10011000 111111001 1111011111 11011110 01111010 01011101 1001110101 011010111 1101111011 1010111011 1110111101 1011101111 1100010101 110111001 1101100111 11111110111 010 1111111111 1111111101 11110110010 11001110101 1101111111 1001110010 111111011 1110100011 1100010100 010010 1110000101 1001100001 01110111 1101111101 1101100100 10010001001 1101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 54
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 374
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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, and, in, many, that, her, but, he, to, hit, she, him, or, day, for, his, i, your, yow are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, many, and, that, or, i, youre, my are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word arcite at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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