This is an analysis of the poem Perkin Warbeck that begins with:

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At Turney in Flanders I was born... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbc X dede X fgfg X bhbh a hdhd a dcdc X baXi X adid X hdhX j klkl a jhjh X ahaX X gXGX X HHHX X gagX X ebeb X fifa X agXg X XebX X mfmf X fXfm X eXeg X jhXh X aaaa X ngng X abib X dmdm X dbdb X dada X babi X gXGX X HHHX X djdj X abXb X dldl X mbmb Xoh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,5,1,4,1,4,1,4,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 110010111 11010110 1110111101 11101010 1 111111111 111111 110111111 1111111 1 1111110101 11101001 111010111 1011010 1 111010101 11100101 110111101 11101111 1 11010111 11101101 1111111001 1111101 1 111011001101 01111010 11111100 11010110 1 1110010111 1110111 1111101101 1110100 1 100111101 1111011 111111100 111100 1 111111101 111101 01011101 110100 1 111011111 1011001 110111101 10111001 1 1111100101 1110111 1111111001 11100111 1 111111101 111111 111100111111 10110101 1 1110100101 11101010 010010111 11101110 1 1110111001 1110111 10110110 111101 1 111011101101 1111001 01001101001 10111101 1 1111110101 11111001 1111111011 101111101 1 1011110111 1011100 111111011111 1111101 1 111111101111 1110111 111101000100 1110101 1 1110101011 0111111 11111110 011110 1 111101010 11011011 00101111010 10101111 1 11011101101 11010110 11011101 0101010 1 1010100111 1110110 0101101101 1111011001 1 1110100101 1110110 11110110 110101 1 110111001 101111 11110111 111101 1 111111111 111100 111011101 111101001 1 1111111001 1101101 10110100110 10100101 1 111100101 100111 0110000111 01001001 1 1101111111 010101 111010001 111011001 1 1011100101 1111111 111101101 1111101 1 11111110101 11111111 11111101 0010100 1 1111100101 1111010 010010111 11101110 1 1110111001 1110111 10110110 111101 1 11111111111 010101 11111110111 01111101 1 110100111 1101111 11111101011 11101001 1 0100101100 1011111 10001011111 101011101 1 10111101010 1010111 111010110 101101 1 11010111 1010011 111100101 1010111 1 11010101 1011101 111100101 10101111 1 1111111001 01011110 101100110 1111010 1 1111101110 10101111 11101101110 11111101 1 11111111 11111001 1111011111 110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 81
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 73
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 205
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, my, king, we, ', to, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, that are repeated.

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