This is an analysis of the poem King Arthur's Death that begins with:

On Trinitye Mondaye in the morne,
This sore battayle was doom'd to bee,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX bacA Xada XXbX eacA faga gXhi XAXa dXXX XAXa XejX dXdX XajX iiXX XXXa hXXa XiaX XXjX hdjd aXXX fXXX bXbX dklX iaja Xama XaXX Xadh lXik XaXa XXXX XXaX hXaX XXcX daXX hmXX XXXX XXhX daXa XX XX XXXa hamX bXXX XiXi baXa eXha dXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,2,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010001 01101101 11011110 1001011 10110001 11010011 11110011 110111001 10111111 11111101 11101101 11010011 1011010101 10110111 100101001 1010100100 01110101 01010001 11011101 110111001 01010101 1100101 111011011 01010111 110101101 01011010 01000101 11010101 0111101 01001101 11111101 10011111 11010101 10010111 0101010 01010001 1101101 01001101 11111101 10011111 1111011 11010101 10010101 1101010 11100101 11010101 10111001 01010101 11011001 1111110101 10010101 1101010 10111101 11011101 01100101 01011111 110110101 1101010 10111010 11110111 11011101 11111110 1101011 111110101 01110110 110011 11010101 10110100 110110010 11110101 010110101 1110111 1011111011 11110011 11111101 01010001 101011001 11110101 11011110 1111111 101010101 111100101 110111 110101010 10111001101 10111110 01010101 111100110 10111111 01110111 01110111 100100110 1111011 11011101 101011001 0101001 1000110101 101110101 01001101 11010101 11010001 10110111 101100111 110111010 11010101 11010111 01011111 0101001 110010101 11111101 11100101 1101011 1111100 100111 110101001 1001011 11011110 101110101 11111000 1111111 101111000 11000101 11111001 1101011 10111111 01011101 011111001 11011101 00010011 11110101 11010101 1101111100 010010111 11011011 11111000 1101010 11010101 11010101 101010001101 10101100100 11111001 1111010110 100111101 110101110 10110001101 100110110 00010111 11110010100 01100101 10110011 11111000 11010001 11110101 11101011100 100111101 10011010 1010100101 10111100 10111101 11011111 101111101 11011111 11101100 110101110 01110001 11011001 10010101 11011111 011110101 11011001 11100101 10011111 11100101 11111111 11010101 111101001 10111111 110101011 111011001 111101011 110010111 11011101 101111001 11011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 47
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 185
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; with, his, to, he, and, but are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, but, most, o, sir are repeated.

    The author used the same words for, o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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