This is an analysis of the poem Robert Parkes that begins with:
High travelling winds by royal hill
Their awful anthem sing,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd XeXe Xfdf dgdg hihi ajaj kgXg dddd gbgb dgdg gfgf jljl kdkd kgkg gmXm djdj nhnh mfmf kmkm jnjn cdcd fgfg oeoe ddddXhehe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110011101 110101 11010111 0100001 01010111 011111 011100001 010101 11011101 011101 11011001 111100 101111000 110111 01110101 110001 11010100 0101001 01000101 111101 11110101 110101 01110101 010101 01000100 010101 01011111 110101 10010101 010111 11011110 110111 11110111 0101010 110101001 0101110 110111010 110101 01010101 1110001 01000101 010101 01001111 111101 10010111 110101 01010001 110101 01010101 110101 11010111 110101 01010101 010001 01010101 1100111 11110101 111111 11010001 000101 01110101 010101 010101100 010111 11010101 010001 10010101 0100101 100101101 110101 11010101 110101 11000101 0101011 11010101 111101 11010101 011101 010001101 011101 11010101 010101 11011111 111101 11111101 110111 11010101 101101 11111101 100101 11010101 110101 111111110 111101 111111110 110101 11110011 110111 01010101 011101 01010101 010111 010100101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 26
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 104
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, my are repeated.
The author used the same words and, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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