This is an analysis of the poem The Sangreal that begins with:
A Part Of The Story Omitted In The Old Romances
How sir Galahad despaired of finding the Grail...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a b cdcd efef cccX adad dgdg dhdh dada didi dddd didi djdj dbdb X b kXki cbcb hhhh gcgc ldld fmfm kXkk nini jdjd ofof dbdX X b kgkg mdmd hkhX bdbd dddd eieX jdjd X b dfdf lklk idid Xkdgdg dbdX c b npnp dldl dcdc dcdc dbdb c b hbhb oaoa cbcb qdqd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,6,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010010010001010 111010101001 1010101 100101 1010101 11101 1011101 11101 101001001 100101 1110101 10101 1011111 101000 1011101 100101 1011111 11101 1011111 11111 1010101 10101 1110101 00111 1011111 10111 1111101 10111 1010101 10111 1011101 10101 1011101 10111 1010111 11111 1010101 10111 0010001 10101 1110101 00101 1010111 11111 1011101 100111 1111100 10101 1011101 10101 1 1110111101 1011001 10111 1010101 100101 1111101 111001 1110001 11101 1010101 10111 1011101 01101 1111101 10101 1010101 11101 0010111 10101 10100101 10101 1100101 10101 10101001 100001 1010101 111110 10111101 11101 1010101 11101 1110101 10101 1110101 11101 1011101 101101 1011101 10001 10011101 11001 1011101 10101 1011101 10101 1 111011101101 1011101 10101 1010101 00101 1010101 10101 10010100 11101 1010111 10101 1010101 0011 10001100 10111 1011111 10101 1110101 11101 1110101 11111 1010101 10111 10100101 101110 1110111 10101 1110011 01101 1 111011101101 1110101 10111 1111101 10111 1010101 11111 1010101 10101 0010111 10001 10011111 10101 10 1 1111 11001 1110101 11101 1111101 11101 11111001 11111 1 11101101 1010111 11111 10100101 100101 1010101 10111 1010111 11101 1110101 10111 1111101 10101 1010101 10101 1000101 10101 1011111 111001 1010001 10101 1 11101100101 1110101 11111 10010111 11101 10011111 11110 1110111 11101 111011 11101 1011101 10101 1110001 11101 1111101 11101 1011101 00101 1011111 00101 0110101 10111 1110101 100101 1111001 001001 10010101 10101 1011101 10101 1110101 10101 1010101 10101 1110101 10101 1010001 10101 1110111 10001 1 11101101 1011111 11101 1111111 11101 11111001 10111 1011111 10001 1111101 101001 1110101 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 67
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 90
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 240
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his, sought, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words over, hid, where, youth are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word grail 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 quaffed connects the lines.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Sangreal;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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