This is an analysis of the poem A Lawde And Prayse that begins with:

[a laude and prayse made for our souereigne lord the kyng.]
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  • Rhyme scheme: X XaXaaXX bXbXXcc bdbXXee XXXaaXX eXXXXXf gXghhXX XXXXXdX XiXiibb f X X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,1,1,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011111110101 011111 011111 1101001 110111 10101 1011010 011110 101001 110101 010111 010110 011110 010101 100111 10101 100101 111111 010110 011110 1111001 111011 110101 01001010 11111 111001 111011 110100 101100 001101 011111 1110100 111011 010111 110010 110011 101011 010100 111101 111101 1101001 111110 110101 0100110 01010010 110110 11110 111100 11001 111101 110111 1101101 11110 110101 011011 110101 111001 01 111 10110
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our is repeated.

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

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