This is an analysis of the poem Canute The Great that begins with:
I'll tell of Canute, King of England,
A native of Denmark was he,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb cdad eXXd fgag hiji XkXk agfg jaea jjXj fbfb ccXc aghg iXjX XbeX fjfj fhXX bXkX XXji
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101010 01001111 010110110 110001001 111011010 1001011011 1010110110 111001011 111111010 111101101 1010111010 11111011 10100100010 101011011 0011010010 11001101 111010011 001001011 111010010 01111001 110110110 11011001 1111000100 101011010 1010011010 111010011 0100101010 011001111 010111010 100111111 1100010010 101011001 110011010 01011001 101001111000 1001001001 110010110 01011011 1110110010 110001001 1010110110 0010010001 1110100011 1001001001 110110011 111111111 110010111 01101101 1110111010 1110110110 10110110010 1111011010 10101101010 110100111 110110100 1111010010 111010110 11011001 111011010 1001011001 111011110 111011101 101011111100 11011000100 1011110011 101101111 010001010 011011110 10101101010 1011110110 1111011010 11001011
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; of, to, his, and, you are repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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