This is an analysis of the poem Sacred Gipsy Carol - Prologue that begins with:

Refuse not, Reader, the brief mysterie-play,
Which our poor Gipsy-trio here enacts;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefghghicicjiji akaakcd ddcc allcalacmmii ckckggg bNdbNdaXoo iikkcc domd ddieie ngneccddg cCicCieecc ececaaXXjj ggccbbdd Xgjgggjj lXlialil
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,16,7,4,12,7,10,6,4,6,9,10,10,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 0111001101 1111011111 1101011101 11010101001 1101011111 1101010111 1101010111 1101010111 111100101010 10001011011 110100101010 010111011001 11100111001 1111110101 11011111001 1111010011 1101011101 01010101001 110011100011 11011100001 11110100101 1100110111 1101010101 1111111001 110101101 10110111 10110010 111111 1010111 1011111 1111101 111111 1111111 10101001 1110101 101011111111 01000100 0110100 110001 11111111 11000100 11111111 110101 11011111 1011111 01010101 01001101 11011010101 11011101 11010101 11110101 01011111 01010111 11010101 101011011101 10010110 111001 11111101 10010110 011101 11100111 1001110 11011101 00111111 1101110100101 0100101001 101111101 101010111 11010111 01010101 10101111101 1111111 1011101 1111101 11011111 0110101 1010101 00100110 1010101 11101110 110111111100 1110101101 10110101 1110000 0101101101 101001011001 11101 111101 10110100101 101010110101 11010111 0111001 11010101 11010111 100101 111111010 1111010 1010011 1010011 110111111010 1001111 11101010 1111111 11111101 1111110101 11111101 1001101 11110111 11110101 1010111111111 11111111 1111111101 11111010 10101001 0011100 1010011 11110101 11011111111 11110101 11010101 11011111 11111101 01010101 110011111 11110111 10001100011100 11111100 0011100 11101110 101101 11110100 10010101 1010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 302
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • Amount of lines: 133
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and, we, for, thy, that are repeated.

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

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