This is an analysis of the poem An Excelente Balade Of Charitie: As Wroten Bie The Gode Pri that begins with:

In Virgynë the sweltrie sun gan sheene,
And hotte upon the mees did caste his raie; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXX XbXbXcc dXdXXXe XXaXXff XaXXXff dXdXXXf Xgaggdd XXXXXXX XhXXhXX XXaXXXX XadXXee XXXiihh eXeXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01001111 1101010101 010100011 1011010101 01100101001 1101010001 110111001110 0111000101 1101110101 100110011 01010010101 0111100101 10100011101 101101110101 101111011 11101100101 0101010001 100110001 1100010001 1001110101 111101111101 1001010111 1101110101 1011111001 101111101 1101101111 010111011 101101110101 0101010111 01010011101 0101010101 10110110101 10010010110 01010010101 10111001101 11010100101 111111001 1011111001 11001101010 01110101010 01010101010 101101110001010 10011011 01001100101 0100110001 101110101 110010100101 0110011101 0011010100101 0111010111 0011010101 0100110101 1011010111 1101110111 010001101 101100010101 10101100010101 10111011101 1011010111 1011000101 1011110111 11111111011 11111100110100 1000100101011 00110101101 1101010100 111111010100 11010011001 110101011 010101110011 1101110101 1101010111 111111110101 0111011101 0100110101 10011111 101101100101 1010110010101 1011011110100 0100110011 1010010101 0101011101 10101001111 1110101101111 1011010101 111010011 11110011111 1101001111000 1101010110 1011011111 110101101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 351
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 91
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, thie, his, with, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words haste, the, and are repeated.

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