This is an analysis of the poem The Burial Of William - The Conqueror that begins with:
Oh, who may this dead warrior be
That to his grave they bring?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb cdcd ecec fgfX hihi fafa cccc gXgX ejej aaaX gcgc djdj hchc dkdk djdj adadXcaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111011000 100111 11010100 010011 010101011 010111 01011111 110101 01110100 0100001 01010101 0100101 11111111 110101 11110101 111110 0111101 010111 01010011 110101 01110101 110101 01010101 010101 11000111 0100101 01010101 110101 10010111 011101 11001001 110110 01100101 0101111 11001101 110011 11010101 010101 10010111 111111 01010111 110101 11010111 011101 11111100 110001 11011101 110011 11111101 111111 11110111 100101 11001101 011101 110100111 110111 11010110 110101 11011111 010111 01111101 010101 11011111 011101 11000101 111101 01011101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a, and are repeated.
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