This is an analysis of the poem Chant Royal Of High Virtue that begins with:

Who lives in suit of armour pent
And hides himself behind a wall,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababccddXdDababXXddXdDabaXcXXXXXXabXbccdddXDaXabccXdddD
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 55,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101 11010101 11010101 01010100 10110111 11011111 11010101 11010001 1101110 11010101 10011001 10010100 01101101 11011100 10010101 11001111 11011110 11110101 01110001 11011100 11111101 10011001 01111111 11011101 11010100 100101000 11010101 11010010 11000100 01111100 11100100 0111000 1011001 110101001 111101001 010011101 11010111 110111101 11100101 01111100 11010111 11011101 11011100 10011001 11010100 01110100 11001100 010011100 11010101 11010101 10111001 10011111 0001001 11010101 10011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1853
  • Average number of words per stanza: 333
  • Amount of lines: 55
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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, that, one, thee are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words by, one are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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