This is an analysis of the poem Robin And Makyne that begins with:

ROBIN sat on gude green hill,
   Kepand a flock of fe: ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababaXaX cXXXXXXX XbXbXXXX XXXXdXdX acXcXXXX XeXXXXXX fXfXXXfX XXXXXXXX fbfffXXX aXXXXXXX XgXgXXXX bcbcbXbX bebXXXbX bcXcbcbX XXXfXXXX XeXXXXXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011111 100101 1010111 101111 11110111 110111 11011111 101111 10100101 110111 110111011 1101111 101101011 100111 110011001 111111 11011101 111011 01101101 11011 11110111 1010111 11011110 110110 10100110 1111001 11110010 10101010 010011111 111110 11111001 111110 10111011 111111 11111111 111101 1110111 111010 01011111 101111 10010101 110111 1000111110 10111011 1111111 110101 101111011 101111 101101111 1111100 10010111 1101110 10011111 1100110 1110101011 1101110 10110101 111111 101101010 111111 110101110 110111 10110110 1100101 1010101 111101 10100101 11110011 1011001 110111 11111111 1010111 10111001 1101011 11000111 100101 011101001 110111 1100111110 110111 10101110 111101 11110101 100010 11111111 111100 110110101 110110 10111111 1101101 011011011 1111011 110101001 111101 11100101 111011 10010111 1100111 10111111 1110110 11110110 100110 10101111 101110 10110101 111111 1101010010 100111 10111101 110111 11111111 10111010 10010111 111101 11000101 1011111 100111001 10111011 10011011 101111 1011110 100101 10101101 111101 11111111 110101 10011001 1000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 319
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 128
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; and, my, i, luve are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words robin, 'robin at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    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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