This is an analysis of the poem The Crusader that begins with:
Effigy mailed and mighty beneath thy mail
That liest asleep with hand upon carved sword--hilt... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbbaab bXbccdeed cbcbbfbbf Xdfddgffg hahaaiffi fcfcceffe ejejjgiiX kekeklaal ahahhckXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10011100111 11010101111 110010110111 1111101111 1001011101 110101100111 010111001010 1100101110010 01011101110 11111101111 1011111110 01001010111 011010101111 11101110111 1101111111 11010101010 101010111110 11110011111 11110011111 010110100111 10011110111 11110100101 01001111111 110010100001 111010101110 10101011000110 01011011101 110111001110 01111100101 111100101110 11011010101 110101001001 110011101001 0101100101010 110111001010 10101101100111 0100101100101 1010100111 1010011101 111111111 10100011101 011100101001 11011111010 111101001010 01001111111 111101101010 1111011100 1110110101010 11111100101 110101111101 110010101101 100011111110 10111011001010 11110100101 1101111101 11011110111 101011001011 001111100101 00101111111 11001110111 110100111011 110011101111 1101011111 11111100111 01011110101 0110101000101 0010101100101 110010110101 1110011101 111101001010 101110111010 1010110011001 11001011111 11110101101 01010111111 01110011101 10101111011011 011111110111 1101001011010 11111110110 01111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 443
- Average number of words per stanza: 83
- Amount of lines: 81
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, to, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words still, so, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it, me are repeated).
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