This is an analysis of the poem The Enchanted Shirt that begins with:
Fytte the First: wherein it shall be shown how the Truth is too mighty a Drug for such as be of feeble temper
The King was sick. His cheek was... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abbb cded fbgb hggg iaba XgXg ejbj i ajhj Xded bbab bdad bkaX bacX aXaX XhjX b jeee XfdfXakak
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 101010101101011001111001010 01110111 1011111 111100101 11001011 11111110111 1101101 1011111111 1100111 11110101 11111101 1110101001 11011011 0101101001 01011110 010101111 01111110 0101110101 10110101 0010110101 11100111 011110111010 10110101001 001110101 01011011 111000101001 1100101 0100101111 00100101 1010100110111011111111011111 1100101001 111101 11011101011 1111101 111111101 1111101 111101101 1101101 111110111 110111 111100111 1010111 1111100101 0101101 110111111 10100111 010100111 1011111 11001100111 110010010 1011100101 1011111 1010111101 1110110010 10011001001 10111110 1011010101 101011010 0101011101 1110111 10110110111001 10110010110 101101010001111010010101 1100100110 0010101 10110100101 1101001 1110100101 10100101 1100101101 001100001 111100111 0010101 1010110111 1011111
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 75
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, he, they, has, to, of, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words if, and are repeated.
The author used the same words they, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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