This is an analysis of the poem Romance Of Dunois that begins with:

It was Dunois, the young and brave, was bound for Palestine,
But first he made his orisons before Saint Mary's shrine: ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabX ccbX ccbX aabX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 01100111111101 11110100011101 110101010110101 11110101110101 010101011100001 11000101010001 11000101011101 1100101010100101 110100011101001 11111101111001 11010111100101 11110001110001 11110101011101 11010111011110 110011101100101 1100001010100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and are 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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