This is an analysis of the poem The Knight And The Lady that begins with:
There's in the Vest a city pleasant
To vich King Bladud gev his name,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XcXc dedX fgXX Xdad eheh iaia jdjX Xgag XXgg icXX adad fdfX ekkk Xjfj XcXc XaXa XeXX jejXXdhdh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 100101010 01110101 101101010 11010101 111101010 11111111 111101010 01111001 110101110 101000101 010101010 01010111 011101110 01010111 110101100 1101010 0101111100 01011101 111101100 111111001 1111001011 11010101 101000111 01010101 010101010 01011101 010001010 11010011 11101011 01110101 101001011 01011101 110101110 11111101 010101010 01110101 110111100 1111011 110111011 11010111 111111010 110111111 010111001 11110011 011101110 10111001 110111010 11010111 111100010 11111111 010111010 11010101 111101110 11010110 110011110 10011101 110111110 11110101 110001010 01111111 1100110100 01011111 010101100 01010101 111101110 0111111 111101111 11010101 100101010 01010111 001101010 011101011 111111011 10100101 110101010 11011101 010111010 01010011 110100010 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; to, and, o are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words although, if are repeated.
The author used the same words 'o, my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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