This is an analysis of the poem Goddwyn; A Tragedie that begins with:

PERSONS REPRESENTED.
HAROLDE, bie T. Rowleie, the Aucthoure.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXbcXX XdXdXXXXXXXeX XfXXXXgXXXXXXXcXcXhXhXXXiXXiXjXXfXfXXXXXXXXXXXXXhbbXXXeeXXXXXXXbXXfXXXXXXXXXXXXXXcXXXXXXiXXXhXfXfXcXXXXeXeXXXXXXXXXXeXXeXfXfXbXXaXXXbXbXXXhkhkXXXXXXXXXkkXeXXfXXXXXXXk XfXXcXXXXXXXXXhXXXXXXXXXXXXc XXXcXgXXXXXXXXXXXXXfdXdXdgXdhXXXcXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,13,166,28,50,31,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101010 10111010 10101010 10111010 10111001 110111010 1011010 10 101101101 101101001011 1010010111 101000101 1111011101 1111111101101 0100011110 10010111 1100111111 1001111101 10110101001 11011111011 10010 11 10110 10 10 10 11010 10 11101 1101001001 11010101011 111100011 10 11010111101 11111101001 1110011111 10010110111 10 1111111011 1101110101 11111101101 1111111111 1100001 10 0101 11110000101 10 110101011 011100100101 110101 10 11001111101 111101011 1101011101 1110111101 10 1001111111 10 111101100011 1111111101 111110111 11111111110 100100100 1111011101 111111111 10 1111101101 1100110011 1001000101 1001011111 1101100101 1011011111 11001101110 1101101101 1001111111 1111010111 111110001 1111010011 1110110101 10110011101 10 11110010001 0110000110 01010010001 100111010 1101010110 100011101011 1010011111 11011101111 1111110110 100110101001 10 110 10 1111001 101110101 111001100 111110101 10 111 10 110101 1011010110 1000011110 1101110101 0111000100 01101111110 10 101101 10 1011 111010101 111010011 10010010101 1111110111 11110111001 1101011111 1110111111 100111011001 110101111 10 1101101 10 1111 0100110110 1111011111 1101010110 10 1101010111 11110101001 110111011 101010111001 10111100101 11011111010 10 11010111111 1101101101 10 01111001010 1111010111 11111100100 110011001001 0111010101 10011101011 110011111 1001011101 10 100011101010 110111111011 10100111110 01001110101 11011110101 1111011001 1111100101 11110101011 11010101001 11010000101 10 11110100001 0100101011 0111011101 1101011101 10 1111110101 111000101001 111011111 111010101 1111011101 101101100110 1111010011 1101011110 110101011101 111110110101 10 1111 10 110101 1111110111 11010111011 11110101101 10011000101 1111010101 111110101 1111 1111011001 1110100111111 11 11 110101 1 10101111001 1101111101 110101110 1111111111 1 10101111100 111111111 1111101011 0111111101 1 1011111001 111111111110 1 11110111110 1011110101 110011000110 1101111001 1101111111 1111101001 1111110101 1111111111 1 1110110100 01111101101 11 1111 1 111111001011 1 101101110010 011010110 011001100010 1 1101 1 1010111 1011010001 11011111101 111110001 1 10101101101 1111101100101 1 11011010111 1101111011 1100110111 1101000111 1 1110111101 111111010110 1 11001010101 11011110101 1 1101111110 110101010001 11011101011 1100011101 1101110110 1000110001 1 101001001 1101100101 0111011101 1111111110 1111001111 111101111101 1 1101011111 11111111110 111011110 110100011110 11110001101 110111101011 11 10 110111101 01010111 100111001 0110101 110101 110101 11010110101 01100010010 11100010101 1101010101 110101 111101 010110 111001 10101011001 1101110101 10110100111 100110111001 1100101 1100101 110001 100111 1101011111 111011011 1111110111 110110101001 111111110 11110001 1110011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1861
  • Average number of words per stanza: 317
  • Amount of lines: 295
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; bie, goddwyn, i, ayde, thie, arte, thou, mie, wee, you, to, and, hys, she are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words goddwyn, harolde, thou, the, lyche, here, i'lle, theie, i, kynge, she are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines harolde, queene, kynge are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases harolde, queene, kynge connect the lines.

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