This is an analysis of the poem Duns Scotus's Oxford that begins with:
Towery city |&| branchy between towers;
Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarm{`e}d, lark charm{`e}d, rook racked,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccaacca dbdbdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 01010100110 11100111111 1010 0111001111010 1010011110 1101101110 110101110010 1010111010 1010101110 1101110101 11111101111 11010111111001 010101010100001 1001101010011 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 378
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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