This is an analysis of the poem The English Way that begins with:
After the fight at Otterburn,
Before the ravens came, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba XcdX Xefe ghgX XcdX dcdc gigX XcbX djdj didi klkl gigX gigi Xbdb iiii dddd laha df dX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011100 010101 01110101 111101 11111000 111101 010111001 0101011 11110110 110111 110101111 1111101 111110101 10111001 111110111 111101 11111000 111101 010110111 110101 10110101 1100111 11111111 111101 111110101 1011001 1111101011 111011 11111000 1011101 011110101 110001 11110111 1011111 1010100101 1010111 11110111 010101 111110101 110101 1111111110 1010011 1111111010 110001 1111101011 110111 1101100111 111011 11100101001 010101 1100100111 111001 11111000 111101 1011111111 111110 11110101 110001 11110101 110101 11010101 110101 11110101 010101 10010101 011101 01111111 110101 10011001 1001001 100100101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; you, some, and, my, from, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and 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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