This is an analysis of the poem Bertrand De Born that begins with:
The burden of the sometime years,
That once my soul did overweigh,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabbab cdcddcd efeffef ghghhgh ababXab aeaeeX Xiiiiiii ejejjeX cXciici bcbccbc kXkiikXXdcdccdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,6,8,7,7,7,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01000110 11110100 10100111 11001101 01011111 01111101 01110101 11011011 11110111 110001001 01110101 01011111 11011111 11110111 11111111 11110101 11110111 01010101 110100111 01011101 10011101 11111111 011111010 11111111 110011110 010101010 11110111 110101010 11011111 10110101 11110011 11010011 11110100 11101111 11010101 110110010 11111101 001101110 10110100 10110111 11101100 10110101 11111101 10010111 110111101 10011101 11010101 01011111 11110111 11010010 01111111 01010111 110101001 11111111 01110111 11010111 11100100 111101100 11011111 11110101 11110001 11111111 01011101 111100111 01111101 01110111 10111101 11110111 10110111 01011111 11111111 11011110 10110101 01111111 01010101 01101111 01010110 11111101 10011111 01111111 11101101 11010111 11110101 0111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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, my, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, of, the are repeated.
The author used the same words i, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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