This is an analysis of the poem An Extempore that begins with:

When they were come into Faery's Court
They rang -- no one at home -- all gone to sport... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccXcXcddeeffXgghheecccXihhccddeXeXjaaaaccddkkkkllddddbbXXiXllmmaaXillX XlliieXcXiikkaaggiiccbj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 74,23,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 110100101 1111111101 1111111101 1010110101 0101101111 11001010111 1101011010 1001011101 11110010101 1111010101 1111011101 1101110101 1101111111 1111110001 1111111101 1011011101 1111010101 0101010101 1101011101 0101011101 0101010101 1101001111 1111011111 1101110101 0101111101 1101000101 0101001100 0101010001 0101111111 1101010111 1111010001 1111110101 1101010111 1111000111 1101010101 1111011111 1111110101 11011100110 01111011011 1011010111 10011010101 1011110101 1011010101 1101011101 1101010101 1111011101 0111010101 11011010001 1101010101 1111010111 0101010101 1101111111 1110110101 1110110101 1100010101 1011000100 1001010101 0111001101 1001011101 11110101100 11010111010 1101111101 1101010111 1111110111 1101100101 11000001111 0100010001 0101011001 100110010001 1101011100 1011000101 0101111101 1011010101 10101 1001 0111010101 1111011111 1101011101 1101011101 11010101 110010111001 1111110101 1111010101 10111110011 00101011101 11001010101 1011111101 0101011101 10110100111 1101100101 1101010111 11001010101 1101011011 10010101010 11110101010 1101010101 1111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2042
  • Average number of words per stanza: 398
  • Amount of lines: 97
  • 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, my, he, prince, her, then, his, they are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, the, and are repeated.

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