This is an analysis of the poem Sir Hornbook that begins with:
I.
O'er bush and briar Childe Launcelot sprung... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbc dede fafX Xcac gXgh XdgggX ijiX cfcf X adXa dcdc ibib dfdf kdkX hdhdXX jdjd HIHhI X XdXd gdggX gXgX jiJI X dddd fafa clcl Xhgh lglg dcdc cfcf hghg iiii imim aeae hIhI a dhdh jdjdjd idid dgdX cfcf XdnX hjXX hiHI a dddd gbgb nhnh lhlh bXbX dfddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,5,1,4,5,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,6,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1 10111011011 010101 11010111 011101 01010101 110101 01010101 110101 10101110101 110101 11110101 0111100 1010101110 1101101 1000010111 111101 100010011 1111100 11111101 110001 10101011100 111101 1010011101 01110111 11011101 11110100 11010111 010101 01110101 11111000 11110101 111111 010010101 110101 1 11110101 010101 01111100 011101 11011111 110101 11010111 110101 110100100 010101 11010101 011011 10111001111 10101010 11110101 1101010 101011011 011101 110001100 1101000 101010101 110101 01010101 110101 11011111 1101110 110110101 110101 011100101 111111 11110101 111111 010011101 010100001 110101 1 1011101010 011111 1010011010 110001 101010101 111101 110100101 11111101 1111010 1011101101 11110100 111110111 11011000 01011111 010111 010011111 110101 1 11010111 010101 11110101 110111 11011111 011101 11011100 011101 01010101 110001 01000101 110101 11011100 110101 11111111 111111 11100101 111101 111100111 111101 11011101 111101 11010111 111111 11111101 01001110 11000101 1111010 11011101 1101101 11110101 011101 11001101 01010010 11011101 1101010 11011101 1101010 11110101 0101110 1101101001 111101 11110001 010101 11110101 111111 010010111 110101 1 11110101 110101 11010101 110111 11110111 110101 11010101 110101 11010101 010101 01110111 1101101 10101110101 0111001 101010111 110100 11110001 1101100 11001101 110101 11111101 010101 10100110100 111101 10111001001 11011000 101010101 110111 111111010 1101010 11011101 010111 010011101 110101 1 11010101 110101 11010111 011101 111111001 1111010 11011101 11001010 110011111 0101010 11011101 0101110 11110111 011011 111100101 010101 01010001 1111000 11010101 1101010 101111101 1101110 10110101 111010101 111101000 11011100 10101101101 100011000 11110101 11001010 11011101 110111 100101001 010011 01000101 110101 11010001 010001 01011001 110111 11010111 011101 10110111 011101 11110101 110101 110111001 010101 11010101 010001 11000100 111111 11010101 01001001 01010101 110001 11010101 111101 01011111 111111 010011111 110101 1 11110111 1101010 11110101 0101010 01110100 111101 110101001 010101 11110110 011001 010110100 011111 11111111 110011 10010101 0100010 11110111 11011101 1101010 1011100111 1011111 11110101 010100100 10111111 110101 110111011 011101 11011100 110001 111101101 111101 11011101 011101 11010101 010101 11010011 110101 11010101 111101 111111001 111101 101001110111 111111 1010111010 100101 111111110 01001010 11011111 010101 010011111 110101 110110101 010101 11010111 01011111 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 75
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 299
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, thy, my, he, his, to, i, of, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, his, all, she are repeated.
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