This is an analysis of the poem The CōUercyon Of Swerers that begins with:

The fruytfull sentence & the noble werkes
To our doctryne wryten in olde antyquyte ... full text

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 56,56,44,21,2,35,2,7,2,119,1,22,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101001010 01101001100 11011110010 101101100 111001010100 01001011100 111110100 1110111010 01010010010 0010101111 111001100 1001010100 10010110100 1001011100 110000101010 01011011010 0001111001 1111110100 0101011100 1011010100 1111010100 10110101010 0100111010 11101001 10101000010 1001111000 1110111000 11110101100 10110101100 1010010010 11010010100 110110101 110101011 101010110 101010010 110111001 100111111 1001011100 0101010010 011011110 1101011001 01010110111 11011100100 1111001010 111101001 1001110001 0110010100 1100011001 101010011 1001110010 10001111100 100110011010 1001100101 0101010100 01010110001 1010101100 110100101010 111101101 110111100 1111011011 1011110010 1001010011 1111111110 11011100110 010111100 1111011110 1110010010 110010011000 01101011101 11101001101 011111101 11010101011 000101101 111110010 10110011111 111011101 1001101101 1010111110 101111000 1011001010100 01110111100 101101010 11111111 111110111 1110111101 11110111010 1101101111 1111110010 0110011010 1101111101 1101111011 1011010010 10110001101 00010010101 1111011111 111100001001 110111111 1111011101 1110111110 1111011101 1111011110 10011110111 1110011101 1110110101 1101110110 1111011010 0111010110 11110011000 0101001101 11111011010 11111111011 1001111100 1 1 0 1 10 11 10 01 111 101 100 110 1111 111 1101 1110 10111 10111 10111 11111 110110 111000110 011100 111010 11111 11011 11010 11011 1110 0110 0010 1110 111 111 110 011 11 01 11 1111 1 1 1 0 10111011111 1011101101 11111101 1010110101 0100111001 1101011000 01110110 1111011010 011010100100 111101101 11010011100 01011001110 111011100001 11010011001 111011000100 0111001010 1001010110 10101010 10011111 111001100 101111110 11001011010 1001000 1001111000 10101011100 1101111100 0101011010 1011010100 100111010 1110100010 011011101 0011110111 1111111101 1100111111 1101111101 1111111100 10110111000 010101010 1110101100 111111010 101101110 1111001000 1110111101 111111100 110011111 1110100110 10101001001 101111101 1001011111 1111011101 111011111 11110101001 0110111011 110110000101 0111011110 1011011110 00101011010 01010011000 110101000100011100010110 1100001 0111001100 101000010 0101011100 1011010100 10100100 110111100 10100110100 1101101101011101001110 100 1001111100 111110100 1001111100 110101010 11110111100 10010101111 101111111 1101101111 1010101100 11010011101 011110110 111110110 1111011100 1101010111 1111011001 111111010 111110110 11101000100 1111010100 11111111 111011111 1111101100 111101100 11110001010 111111110 1111110100 111110110 111101110 11111101 1111100010 1111011110 111111010 111111110 111110001 111101001 1111011100 1110110100 1110010010 11010110000 1111011100 11111111 111111101 100111100 1001111110 100110010010 1001111100 1001100100 10011111 100111011 1001110111 100101010 100111101 1001110011 1001111100 1001100110 100110100 100110011 100111000 1001110010 1001011000 1001001000 10011111 1001111011 100111100 100110010 1001111100 100110010 100101100 1001001100 111001100 0101110100 1100011111 1110101000 1001111100 01111010110 100101101 1111101011 1110010111 110010110 10101001010 1101011001 1001100101 110101111 011011110 101011111 0011111100 10110111 1010100100 11111111000 01010011110 1000011011 101100101000 1111010110 1100100011000 11011100101 1000011000 101111011 1101011011 1001011010 01111110100 111101100 1011010111 01100101110 111111110110 1111111111110 10111111 1011111110 11101011011 1111010100 1111110100 1111011100 1111000110 11001001011 11101111001 1111110110 1011011110 1110111110 11111110010 11101101010 101000100101000011011010110111000111011100110101011010101001101001 1111010100 1111010100 1101101000 0101010110 10101111100 1111111100 1110010100 01101011111 11111011101 1001001001 101001001 100100110 0111110100 1001111110 1110110010 10110011001 111111110 1111011010 011101110 11111100 0110010010 01
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1178
  • Average number of words per stanza: 211
  • Amount of lines: 368
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; in, to, your, be, and, some, my, they, ye, i, you, wo, worthe, whiche, blessyd, me, it are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words some, they, i, my, to, ye, wo, blessyd are repeated.

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