This is an analysis of the poem Robin Hood's Flight that begins with:
Robin Hood's mother, these twelve years now,
Has been gone from her earthly home;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eded fgfg hehe idjd dddk lljl mdmd gggg lXlX egeg lnlX ecec lblb cXcX klkl nlnl lXlX njnj ncnc gjgj deXdX inin lglg XXeX nnnn loXo dgdX Xnnn eeeX cncn gngn glgl kcdc nlnl gege jkjXXecec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 101101101 10100101 110111111 0110101 011110101 1100111 01100101 0101101 10110111 1110111 111001001011 0101001 11110111 111101 1111111 1011101 1110010101 10101 11110111 1101001 111100101 110101 1010101001 0011001 11011001 1110111 110110101 110110 11111001001 1110111 01101111101 11110101 1111011001 111101011 11110101 01111001 11011101 1001001 110101001 011101 10100101101 1011110110 1011101110 1101010 1010101010101 10111001 01001011111 1001010 1000101110 110111 11010101 1101100 1010101101 110100 1101011111 1011111 1010101101 010111 11011001011 010101 1010101101 110010110 100011101 1110100 101001110 110111 1010101110 1100001 1010101 11110 10100101 1110101 1011111101 1111110 100011101 11111000 110111100 1000101 1111100101 0101011 110100101 1110111 1011011101 1101110 1011100101 0011101 100110111 1011001 10111011101 01011001 10101010101010 11010110111 11111110 111110101 0110101 111101011101 1010001 010101101 11010111 11010101 1101001 101111110 101001001 1011011111 101010100 01011111 100101 110100111 100101 10010101 110111 101010011 1110001 1000110011 101111 100111101 00110010 1001011010 111101 10111111111 00100111 1011111101 1011001 111101101 1011110 10111001 000101 11000101 011111 110111 110111 11000101 111001 110010111 11001001 010101101 110101 10110100 110000 11010111 10101 11010101 0101101 10000111 1010111 10110111 1011101 11010101 110101 110100101 1111010 110100101 101111100 11111101 1110010 010111111 01010010
- Amount of stanzas: 39
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 157
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; looked, he, for, and, i, thou, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, and, here, as, or are repeated.
The author used the same words and, robin, seize at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Robin Hood's Flight;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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