This is an analysis of the poem The Tunning Of Elenor Rumming that begins with:

Tell you I chyll,
If that ye wyll... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXaaXXa XXXbXXXXXc XXdXXXXXXXXe XXXXbXXfXXXXghhddhXXhXXXXXXXiiiiiXXXfXfgXjjddhhXXXXggXXXX X jjXXiXXXXX kkkXXXcccccX XXXXhhcchXXffggXXXjj XbXXdhhkkhXXX XXiiiXXkk hXXh hhiiiX llXXXhhffmmnnnnnX aaXXXXXXXX hhXXXX ffXXXbeXeXXXXXXhh X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,10,12,57,1,10,12,20,13,9,4,6,17,10,6,17,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111 0111 0101 00101 11101 11011 110101 11101 1010 0110 0110 01001 0101 11001 10110 10110 01110 1010 10010 101101 1011 01101 11011 10101 0101 10101 011010 110010 1010 11010 01111 1101 00101 01010 11100 11110 11110 11010 011110 01111010 10011 1010 101100 10010 010010 1110010 10011 01011 10101 10101 11111 10100 001010 111010 010010 010101 011011 11101 111010 101110 11110 10011 01101 11111 110101 010101 111010 1100010 10110010 010101 010101 110101 100101 1001001 0011 10011 01011 11010 101 1111 10101 110101 101010 111110 110101 00101 10010 0110110 10011 11001 1010 10101 110001 010010 110010 1111 11010 00101 10100 100101 0101101 101111 110101 1101011 0100010 010010 110110 11101 11111 11101 0100101 11111 1111100 1111 0100101 1100110 11111 1011 10101 1011 01101 11011 100110 111010 1100101 1101010 110110 110110 111110 010010 010010 1100101 1110001 1001110 110010 1101010 1011101 111111 11001 0010101 11111 00101 11001 11010 10111 01011 11110 0010110 11001 111111 01101 110010 101011 100111 111001 11111 110111 1110010 0100001 1101101 11010101 010111 011111 1110111 1110101 1010010 111010 11011 111101 01010101 01101 110001 11001001 010100 0101001 0100011 11111 11111 110111 11101 11111 11101000 1101 110111 110111 111101 111110 1101110 1101110 1101110 1111 11111 11111 1110110 1111 101011 111110 001100 111111 1101 1011 10111 10110 111010 11111 01101 01101 11101 11011 11101 111001 00110 010010 11001 00101 11010
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 301
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • Amount of lines: 217
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; lyke, she, to, theyr, some, be, her, wyth, and, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, theyr, some, they, and, of are repeated.

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

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