This is an analysis of the poem The Road To Roundabout that begins with:
Some say that Guy of Warwick
The man that killed the Cow, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXabcbbbcadeeeD XcecfceeecXfeeec egcgXgfffgedeeeD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,16,16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1111010 011101 11010101 010111 11010101 110101 11011111 00100101 001000101 110101 11110101 1001001 11111101 01010101 01010101 110111 11110110 110101 01011101 0101101 11010101 011101 11010111 10110101 11001101 101101 11110011 010111 11111101 01010101 01110101 011100 11111101 110101 11010101 111111 1111010 1101001 11010100 01000100 01110001 110101 10010101 111101 11000101 11010101 001010101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 511
- Average number of words per stanza: 90
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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