This is an analysis of the poem Lord Robert that begins with:
Tall and young and light of tongue,
Gallantly riding by wood and lea,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXCACAC aaaXCACAC aabXCACAC abbXCACAC aaaXCACAC cbcbCACAC cdcdefeefafgad aaaXdaXXCACAC hdhdghfhfddCACAC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,14,13,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 100101111 11100101 111101001 1110110110 11101111 101110111 11111111 110110110 1111111 10101111 00100101 111101001 1110110110 11101111 101110111 11111111 110110110 1111111 10111111 11100101 1011101001 1110110110 11101111 101110111 11111111 110110110 1111111 1011111 10001101 111110101 1110110110 11101111 101110111 11111111 110110110 11110101 10011111 11100101 111110101 1110110110 11101111 101110111 11111111 110110110 111111001 1110111001 1111101 11101111 1110110110 11101111 101110111 11111111 110110110 1011001 1010101 1011001 10110001 01111110 11100101 111011110 111011110 10100101 10111000101 0111010111 1111111011 10111111 1011110111 111100111 111011111 11111111 111101001 111111111 11001101001 1111101101 111101001 1110110110 11101111 101110111 11111111 110110110 1100110111 1010110101 1110101001 0101011011 101011001 11001101001 011111111 010111111 1011110111 1011100111 11100111 1110110110 11101111 101110111 11111111 110110110
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 412
- Average number of words per stanza: 80
- Amount of lines: 105
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and, robert, lord, i, he, dear, when, so, lowly, sat, black, wine, cold, like are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words oh, when, sat, and, a are repeated.
The author used the same word chance at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines wine is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word robert at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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