This is an analysis of the poem King Ryence's Challenge that begins with:
As it fell out on a Pentecost day,
King Arthur at Camelot kept his court royall,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbaX cacaadX bebeebX efeffb XebXbbdd gXgaXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,6,8,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101011 110110110110 0011110001 1101101001 0100101011 1100101011 10101100110 0101001011 11111011 0101110101 1110111011111 110111011 1111110011 1101110011 1001010011010 0010111001 1101110010 110101011 0101011011 0101111110 1010111100 1010100011 11011011010 01101110001 101101010110 111010110010 1011011001 1011101100 100110000101001 101101011 101010110011 011101101 11111011001 110100111 0100110101 101011110101 10101101111 11001011011 10111111 0111101011 10111100101100 110011001100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 324
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; be, in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word this is repeated.
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- summary of King Ryence's Challenge;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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