This is an analysis of the poem The Black Knight's Song that begins with:
Knight And Wamba
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aXab XXXB cXXb X dXdB eXeb fXfb a cXfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110 11110101111 10110100 010100101 1110101101 011011010011 10110100 101011101011 1110101111 001001001001 1100110100 11111101110 1110101111 10 01111111111 10010100 101001111100101 1110101111 11011011011 1101110100 1111101110111 111010101 111101001001 100100100 11001001011 1110101111 1 1011010110010 11011100 10100100101 11010101111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; of, and, his, ap 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 nay at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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