This is an analysis of the poem The Bowge Of Courte that begins with:

In Autumpne whan the sonne in vyrgyne
By radyante hete enryped hath our corne... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXX XXbXXXX cdcXdeX XfXgXXX hhXXXbb eiXiiXX XXXXXbX hXhXdgg bXbaXhX XaXaXcc XfXffXX cdXddaX XXXXXXX XXXjaXX akakkgg lXlXXXX XXXbbdX hXXXXXX X X cXXeebX XeXeeXX XdXXdXi X dhdXXXX XgXgXXX bXjXXXX XXXeXXX X XkXkXXX bXjXXXX mXXXXaa X XgXggXX bXbXeXk XbXbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,1,1,7,7,7,1,7,7,7,7,1,7,7,7,1,7,7,7,1,7,7,7,1,7,7,7,7,7,7,1,7,7,7,7,7,7,1,7,7,7,1,7,7,7,7,7,1,7,7,7,7,7,1,7,7,7,7,1,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,1,7,7,1,7,7,1,7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 010101010 1101100111 110101000 110001011 0111010101 111011100 011101111 1100101100 010111100 101110110 1101110100 111011000 101111101 1010010110 1011110111 110111001 111100101 1100111110 11010011111 10100111101 101111001 1101111110 1001010100 0110111001 11110100 1010101111 11010111101 111111111 111111101 1111110111 11100111101 10001110111 1011111111 110110111 011011101 1111011001 110100111 01001100100 11110111111 100010011111 011110100 1001001111 1111111110 10110111001 111111001 111110111 10010011111 1011011111 010101110 01010010001 11010111 0100011100 1111011101 010110101 011010001 1111110001 01110110101 111001011 01010010110 001111011 110001100 1110101 1101010010 101111111 10110110001 0110011111 10010101111 111110011010 01100010101 1101111101 0011011101 11110111101 1111110101 1111010011 1101111011 111111101 1011111011 110111001 1011011011 1011111101 0101111101 1100111111 111010101 01110101000 1001111111 1001100001 1011110001 110010111 1111001011 1111011101 110010111001 1011111100 1111010011 10010111110 11101111010 1111011111 01010110001 110111011 111011111 01011001 1111111101 11111101 1111110101 110111011 111101101 10111101011 1110011011 10111111111 111111101 101110101 1010110111 1110110101 111011001 10110111101 1110110001 111101100101 110011111001 0111111101 01111110 10010100011 10010111011 110111010 1100100101 110001011101 01011101111 1111111101 1100101100010110100 1 0101101011 11011011110 111101101 11101101101 11101001101 1110011111 11010001111 011110100 1101111101 0101101110 101101101 11010111101 010101100 101100010 1011011111 1111111011 1100011101 000110110 1110111101 1111010101 111111101 1 10100111011 10110101100 1010101101 1100110101 1001100111 1100010110 1101000100 10111110101 0101011101 1000110101 1101010111 1101111110 11110111011 110101101 1011110101 1111111110 11110110100 1111110111 1111110111 10111111111 1110011111 11011011111 1111111111 1101110011 1111111111 111001101 101100100110 1111111111 1 1111101100 1110111101 1101010100 10010111101 01011000110 1001011101 1111011111 01110111101 111111101 1111111000 11101111111 111110101 11101111101 111101110110 111110100 11111100101 1001110100 01010010111 101101111 111001111 110101101 100 110010011 11001100101 010111111 11101111011 1101010101 1101111101 1111101111 1101110101 111111111 1101011000 1111110110 111010101 1101110111 111110101 0101110111 01001110111 1111011111 1110110 0110101111 11111000100 01110111001 1 110111100 0100110010 111101011 1111011101 01010111101 111101110 10001001001 111101100 10011101111 1111111100 1101011101 11111100001 111110011 1010110111 01011101000 0111110011 1001111011 1111111101 01111001011 1101100101 111011111110 1010 111111111 110111111 010111111 111111111 11111111 1111101101 1101111010 1001100010 1111010111 1111111110 0011111101 110111111 1101011111 11100101101 100111111 111111010010 1101111101 101011111 01000011101 111011111 111111101 110010101 0111010111 1101110111 1110110101 1101111101 000111111 110100110 1111101110 110101100 1110111111 011110110 1101101101 0011010111 1101000101 111111011001 11111111 1110111111 111110101 1010111110 1101011111 11010010101 1 1111010111 101101110 0111001011 1101111111 01010010111 0100010101 1111111101 1101110101 01110011111 0111010111 1011011101 101011111 11101110011 10110100101 0101011101 1111011111 111011110 1111111100 1110111110 1111100101 01101111100 110110010 0101011111 1101111111 001111011 1111001101 11010100101 111011101 111111110 1101100110 1110110101 1111011101 1111011010 1101011011 1110100101 1111110110 01011101 1110011001 1111110111 11011111101 110110101 1001110101 10 1001111100 1110101010 1111001110 110110101 001101111 1111111100 010110011001 110110100 11010111111 1101011100 0110111100 1111111000 110101011 10010101 1011111101 11110101001 1101111111 111101011 1111111110 101101111101 111010111 1 1111101100 01010010101 11011100101 10111100111 11111110010 111111111 0111010001 1110111001 011111010 01010011101 0111101111 0111111101 0111010101 1101101011 011101011 0100101011 1111011011 0101110111 01010010011 110101001 0111101101 101111101 11000000101 11110010101 110111101 1111110101 01010110101 111110100 111110010 110110111 111101010 11100101 111110111 1011001111 10111111 1 11011111010 010101101001 111111101 1111111001 111111101 010101111 11010010001 111110101 1111011111 101111101 111110101 010000110011 111111101 1101101101 11010110101 1111010001 1101111101 111111011 1011010111 01010111111 11110111101 111100101 01110110111 11001111101 0101011101 11010110101 1111110001 1111100101 11101111001 1110010101 11010110101 1101010101 0001011111 001111111 11111101101 1 100101011 111111111 10000111010 1110101111 1111111011 1011010000 100110000 1111010001 1101010011 1101111011 1010100011 1101111110 111110110 1010001111 1001111101 111110101 11010111111 1010111101 111111110 110110011 10110011 1001011011 010110101 0101110101 111111001 01101000110 0111011101 1001010111 10000 11110111100 1101101001 0001001010 0101011111 0111110011 111110111 111111011 1111011100 111010111 1010011101 1111101001 00110110101 001110001 1111100101 110101101 1111111110 1111011111 1101111110 111110011000 100101101 0111111001 111101111 0001110101 110101101 011111001 1111111001 1111101110 111101010 1111011011 11010101111 0111111011 1111111111 1111110111 1101110101 111101101 1101000011 111101001 111110101 111010010 1111001111 101100100 101100100 11110100101 0100111011 0110010111 0011111011 0110010111 11110001001 0101010100 1111110010 1011111100 1101111111 10010010101 111111111 0101111111 111111101 1 1001101011 11001001010 0111101111 1110001101 11111101001 11111100101 1111010011 111000101 111111001 111110101 01110110101 11000111101 1011111101 01010111110 10 1111101111 1111001011 1111111111 1101101 1110111111 001011101 1011011111 101010101 11111111110 1111010111 0111111111 11011111 11111111 110010110110 1 111101011 01100100110 10111100111 1101101010 1111010111 110111011 111110101 1110110100 1001110111 0101001000 11010010110 1111001010 1110110011 1101100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 93
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 556
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; our, i, to, his, he, as, she, of, me, in, and, that, they, be, you, ye, it, hym, thou, shalte, wolde, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, she, what, whome, ye, i, and, he, his, that, it are repeated.

    The author used the same words thus, the, but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases he, there connect the lines.

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