This is an analysis of the poem Specimen Of An Induction To A Poem that begins with:

Lo! I must tell a tale of chivalry;
For large white plumes are dancing in mine eye. ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbccddddeeAXeeeeffgghh abeeeefXbXcXXcXXddccccabee ddhhiiXbjjeegghXkkcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,26,20,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111010100 1111110011 1101010101 1100010101 1101011101 1101010001 1100011101 1111010101 1101110101 0101000101 1111010100 1111011100 0101011101 1101110101 0011011100 1001010101 10011111010 110101010100 0110010111 0001010001 0011011101 111111000101 1111010100 101010001001 1001010100 1011110101 1101001101 1001000100 1101010101 1100100100 1100111111 0101010100 11010111010 01110101110 1101000100 1101111001 1111010101 0101010100 0101010111 1111010101 11010101010 10111111010 11010111110 11111100010 1111010100 11001111101 10011010101 1001000101 101111101 1110111011 1111110101 1111110100 1101111101 1011001101 1111111100 11110100101 1101101101 110101 0101010101 1101011101 1111100101 1111110101 1101001100 1101111110 1111110101 0111111101 01010101010 11111101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1003
  • Average number of words per stanza: 182
  • Amount of lines: 68
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; his is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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