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

Robene sat on gud grene hill,
Kepand a flok of fe;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababaXaX cXXXXXXX XbXXXXXX XXXXdXdX XcXXXXXX XeXXXXXX fXfXXXfX XXXXXXXX fbfffXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX bcbXbXbX 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 1001111 11010111 110111 11011111 1011110 10100101 100111 110111011 1101111 101100011 100111 110011001 1111110 101011101 111011 01101101 11011 11110101 1010111 10011110 0101100 10100110 10111001 11110010 10100010 010011111 111110 11111001 1111100 100111011 111111 11111111 111100 1110111 111010 01001111 1011110 100010101 110111 1000111110 10111011 1111111 110101 101111011 1011110 1001101111 11101000 100100111 01011100 100011111 1111100 10110101011 11011100 100110101 1111110 10011101010 1111110 1010101110 1101110 100110110 11001010 1010101 111101 10100101 11110011 1011001 110111 101111111 10101110 10111001 1101011 11000111 100101 011101001 100111 1100111110 111111 100101110 011101 11110101 100100 11111111 011100 110110101 0101100 100111111 0101101 111011011 1111011 110101001 111101 11100001 0110110 100010111 0100111 10111111 0110110 11110110 100110 10101111 1011100 100110101 111111 110101010 100111 10111101 110111 11111111 1111010 100010111 111001 11000001 1011111 100111001 101110110 100001011 1011110 1011110 100101 10101101 111101 11111111 010101 10011001 1000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 128
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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 are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word robene at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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