The Tournament. An Interlude by Thomas Chatterton: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Tournament. An Interlude that begins with:

HERAWDE
THE Tournament begynnes; the hammerrs sounde;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXaXXXXXbXXXbXbcX XXXXXXXXaaXXXXX XXXXXddXXXXXcXXXccXeXefXXXXXXXXXXXccgXXXccXXXfffXXXXffXXXXXgXXXXXXX X XXXhXXXXXXXd XdXXXXXXXXXXXXcXX XXfXf XfXfXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXhXXXiXiiXiXXX XhXXXXXXXXXXXXaXaXXXXXdXdXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,15,67,1,12,17,5,37,34,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10 01001000101 01010101001 0101010110 1001100111 0110101010 1000101011 11100010111 1000110110 11 1101010010 001 11010101001 11001111 110111101 1011010101 101101101001 01011011101 10100010111 1101110111 11010111011001 10110110111 11011101 01001100111 1101011111 1110111111 1101010010 0110011001 11111011111 1100111111 1111010101 10 100111100111 10 1101110111 10010110001 10 110010110110 1111100111 1011110001 1011101101 1101011001 1111001011101 01001110010110010110101100010101010110101001001100 1 01001100101 11010101011 100 100100111001 0111100 1111111010 10011100001 110111101 11110101111 10110101010 10111110001 1101010101 110101011011 1001111101 1111111111101 10110101110 0101011111 01011111010 0101011101 1111011110 1100100111011 01011101 101001001 1101111010 1101110101 110101101 11110101111 110101110 10110101110 1110010101 0110111110 1101111101 111101110101 110101011 0100111101 1101110110110 110010110011 10011111101 1111111111101 110101101110 0111011001010 10110111110 10110101110 10011111101 1110111111101 1 10011111 10 1001011101 10 11010 10 11011 10 1111011100 100 01001010101 01001010101 101111111 1001100101 110011001010 11110101110 010 1110111111 111101111 0111100101 1011010011 11 10 1111111 110101100101 110111011011 111111111 10 1011010001 111101101001 10 1101011111 1101010111 1111011111 110111011 1011110101 1111010111 1001010101 0101010101 10 11111111111 11001011111 10 11111011001 1111111101 1010111111 111001111 10 1001010111 1101110001 1111101111 0101010101 1101101101 1110011101 11 101011111 010111101 101110111 1001111111 100 1100101101 1111010111 100100 10 1110111101 10010110110 11001110101 1101110111 1110011110 1001101001 101110110 1101101101 1101011011 1111011101 1110111111 1111110111 1001101111 1110010101 011101111 1101111111 111101101 1101010001 1011110101 11010001111 1 0101011 10 1011 101010101 11110010101 110010101010 0101011111 1111011111 1101110111 1101010111 11001011111 1011011111 100 11010111001 1011011101 1011011101 1001110101 1010101 101100100 11101001 1111100 1111110111 1110010101 111111001 1111101111 1100110 1100111 1111111 1011110 1111010111 1000111101 1110111110 1101110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1011
  • Average number of words per stanza: 161
  • Amount of lines: 209
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; syrr, de, of, hee, orr, i, bee, and, to, dydd, hys are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, soe, i, a, gyff, hys are repeated.

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