This is an analysis of the poem The Glove that begins with:

PETER RONSARD _loquitur_.)
``Heigho!'' yawned one day King Francis,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abccdeffXXghXXaXba iijjXklljXhhjjXXXcmmjjcckkXhlXgXeXiijjjjllccjjXjeekkXannkkjjkXeX jjjXiiaa XckkcXjjcX ceXii kkXlXoooccggcclXlX jjnnppaakkllkkbbjXllaXllmXkkdXmmgX iiXdkkXckXjjXc deccooXciiiXkkeecX XXXo
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,18,64,8,10,5,18,34,14,18,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010100 10111110 10110010 10110110 11110010 11110101 10110010 11111010 11010111 0101001 11111010 11010111 11110110 101011110 1101010 10110011 1011111 11010010 01110110 110011010 110010110 011110011 010011011 110111100 111010010 110111011 0011010011 11011111 01010010 1011010010 111011110 110010010 111011010 011010110 110111010 111111111 1110010110 1100100101 010111011 111110010 011011110 010110110 101001100110 110010010 110110010 1010111010 10100010110 1110010111 1110010010 1110110011 101010010 111110110 010111110 010011110 011110110 1100100110 011111010 0100111110 111111011 1111110010 0010010111 100001010 111110110 111010110 010111010 1110101100 1111011010 1010111110 1110010010 10011010 111111010 0110110010 110110101 1111011111 110111111 111010010 110110010 010010011 111111111 111110001 010010110 111111110 1011010010 010110110 110010110 110010110 011110110 011011010 111111010 011010101 110110010 1010111010 0111110100 110011010 111011011 0111101100 1010110010 1011110010 111010110 110010010 101 1111010 11110111100 1111101000 1110011010 010110110 1111111010 0011011010 0101101100 1001100100 111011110 111011110 1011100100 01101100100 110010110 1010011110 011111010 111010111 111110110 1010111010 111011011 0111011100 111111010 10101001111 11111111 001101101 111101111 011101101 101001001 111111101 111011101 101101001 111111011 11011001 111111001 101011011 01011101 01111001 001111111 101101101 011111001 1111111000 101001011 101111101 0011111001 001111010 101101011 101101101 11011001 110111110 1011010111 101011101 101111011 11001101 01011011 101110011 11011001 001111111 111011110 110110010 111110011 111010111 011010010 111110100 111010110 011010010 1111101011 0110111111 111010110 010011110 011011001 010011110 1011110011 1010111010 1011110110 1111111110 010110010 0011110011 1110110110 011110010 0010010010 010010110 010010110 111111100 1011010010 1010010110 110011010 110011110 1011011110 1111110110 10010010 011011110 1010
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 634
  • Average number of words per stanza: 115
  • Amount of lines: 193
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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, to, no, in are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines in is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word '' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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