This is an analysis of the poem The Barefooted Friar that begins with:
I'll give thee, good fellow, a twelvemonth or twain,
To search Europe through, from Byzantium to Spain; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdX aabb aadX ddbb eecb ffbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010010011 011010010001 111111111110 1100110100010 11101011001 10111101101001 1011011010010 110111010001 11111001101 01001111111 1101101010010 0011010110010 0101111100111 01101001101 1111111111110 1100110010001 101011111111 101011101001 1010011011010 00100100100010 101011101011 11011111011 1010110100010 11101100100010 11001001101 01001011001 1010110011010 0100100100010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, he, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same words your, he's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word friar at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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