This is an analysis of the poem The Tournament that begins with:
Joust First.
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a b cXcd X aeae X efeb X baba b gbgf b eXeX X e b adad X gaga X hdhd X eiei b jgjg b XkaX X Xkak X fafa X akak g lele b aXak XXdada
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,1,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 1 11011101 10111010 00100100111 10100111 1 10010101 0101011 10011101 110111 1 1101000101 1111100 111101001 1100111 1 11011101 0010111 1110100111 110111 1 01011101 010101 11110101 011100 1 11111111 1101100 11011101 101011000 11100111 110 1 01011111 01010101 01010111 010111101 1 11011101 101111101 11010101 11010111 1 11110101 110101110 011110111 101101110 1 011110101 01110101 1111011001 11010101 1 11000101 11011001 11010101 110110111 1 1101101010 11011101 101110111 1111111000 1 1100111011 01110101 01111011 10111101 1 11110100 01011101 01011100 11111111 1 111100101 110100101 11110101 11110001 1 11011111 11111101 110111001 101111101 1 1111010111 111111011100 101110111 111111001 1 11110001 11110101 1011101101 1100101101
- Amount of stanzas: 39
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 75
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 97
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, or, nor, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, his, look, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Tournament;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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