This is an analysis of the poem Erle Robert's Mice. In Chaucer's Style that begins with:

Tway Mice, full Blythe and Amicable,
Batten beside Erle Robert's Table.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeXXdfXggh hiiXiXXhhjjggeXii XfXjeXffff XekkddiihhXddeeiii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,11,17,10,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111000 1001101010 111111101 111111101 11110111 11110111 111100101 11111001 01010101 11011011 11010111 01010111 01110101 01011101 11111101 11011101 111111110 11111111 10010101 11010111 1111111 11110111 111011111 11110101 10111101 11010101 11111001 01010101 111010101 10010101 111100101 01101101 1101111 01001101 10010111 10010101 11111111010 01110111 10111101 10011000 01110111 100101100 10010111 01010001 11110110 11001101 01010111 11110111 10111101 01000101 111111001 11011111 011101001 10011101 11010111 01011111 11110101 11010111 111111001 11011111 110101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 358
  • Average number of words per stanza: 66
  • Amount of lines: 61
  • 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; or, and, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.

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