This is an analysis of the poem Robin Hood, A Child. that begins with:
It was the pleasant season yet,
When the stones at cottage doors... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ededeX fdfd gege fhXh fifi jaja gckc blbX bgbg jcjcjc emem fnfX dnddn kXge Xdkl iiii eXeX eXeb egeg hcXc iaia dbXX aiai dmdm cbcb XXae mdmd hehe dflX gdgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010101 1011101 11010111 1001010 01111101 10101001 101100101 000111 101101111 10001101 11010011 0110101 11010011 1101000 11011111 1111101 1110111101 0101101 1010101 1100011 01110101 000111 01010101 110111 11000111 0101001 11010101 0101001 110110101 111001 10011101 110101 101010111 010111 110010111 1110111 1100101100 1111101 10110101 111011010 001010101 110111100 110011111 1111101 100100111 110111 1010110101 0111001 11011111 110111 01010001 1110101 110100101 111101 11000101 010101 10110101 11111010 11010110101 11010100 1111111011 11010110 1101001011 1010011111 1110110 101010110100 100010110 11111101 1110111 101001111110 101110110 1010111100 10111010 010100101 11001101 111001011 1010001 10000101 1111000 1011100101 10111010 101000101 111101010 010111111 1110101 10111101 10101 0111101011 100111 011111011 00110111 1101111100 1111101 1000111001 1001101 111100101 100101 1101101001 110101 11010100 11000100 010100111 000111 11010101 0101111 11010110 0100101 010101101 1111001 11010111 1011010 10101100101 010101 11011010010 1101011000 0101101111 11011110 111101001 1010101 01000101 110101 11111101 1110101 111100111 1111101 1011010011010 1001111 11111001101 11111010 010100101 111101101 1110110101 11001010
- Amount of stanzas: 32
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 133
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, his, if are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i are repeated.
The author used the same word sad at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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