This is an analysis of the poem The Troubadour, Pons De Capdeuil that begins with:
The gray dawn finds me thinking still
Of thee who hadst my thoughts all night;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dededd eXfXaa cgcgbb XhXhXf dbdbXb cgcgdd ibibee ccccii ededjj ibibbb fgXgdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01111101 01111111 011111011 10110101 11010111 11111111 11111101 11011101 10011101 01111101 11010101 11000111 01111100 11010001 11011111 11010101 01010101 11011101 01111111 11100101 10111101 11010111 01010111 10010101 10110111 01001101 01000100 01110111 11110100 11011010 10011101 11011111 01010111 11110111 01010100 01010111 11111101 11001101 11011101 11010111 11101111 11011101 01010111 01011101 11111111 10011111 110101110 110111110 11010101 11111101 01010111 01010101 01110101 11111101 01011101 01011101 11110101 10011101 01001111 01000111 10101111 11010101 11010101 10010101 11111111 01111101 11111101 01110111 01111100 1011101101 11110111 01101101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; my, of, thy, his, i, ride, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, my, and, the are repeated.
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