This is an analysis of the poem In Arthur's House that begins with:

In Arthur's house whileome was I
When happily the time went by... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcddeeXXffgghhf fffiiaaj jfXjjeeffffffcbffkkcceellmmccaaffjjkkmmkkaadffXXaacX kX XckX mX nnX kaaX lbbmmiillXmmaakX eekkeeoXpacb mmbbojffkkXekkjjffapjjeekkggkkccjjkkkkaaf fmmaakkX fkknXjoXgbc Xaeemmbbd dnnf XiijjeeffeXbbddaaffmmXbhX lXbbffXejXqqeXkk ffii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,8,52,2,4,2,3,4,16,12,41,8,11,9,4,25,16,20,27,10,5,21,68,3,5,32,9,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011011 11000111 01010001 11011001 10111101 01010001 10011101 11011101 10111110 11110101 01110111 11011101 01111101 11110101 01010101 110010101 11110110 0101101001 11111111 11110101 11110101 11010111 11010011 11111111 01001101 11010101 01010101 10000100 01010001 01010111 110010111 100101101 11110101 01110100 110001101 11000111 11111101 01011101 11110111 10010001 110100011 01110111 01111111 01111101 11011111 11010101 01011100 01110101 10111101 11010100 11110101 110010111 11010101 11111011 11111111 01111111 01010101 01011111 10111101 11011101 11010101 110100101 01110101 11101111 01010111 110110111 11110111 11111101 11111001 11111111 111101001 11111110 11110110 01101111 11010111 11011101 1101111100 11011101011 110101010 10101000100 011101101 11110101 1101001100 01110111 10111111100 101001110111 01011111 111101010 011101101 11010111 11011111 111101110 111010101 11110101 11111101 01110101 11011101 10001111 11110101 10011111 11110101 1111100 111 1100100111 10111111 11011101 01010101 1101111100 01111101 11110101 01011101 11010111 11011111 10011101 01110110 11011100 11111100 10110101 11010101 01010011 11111101 11110101 11010101 01011001 11011100 010100111 11110101 11010101 11010101 11110101 11110110 01011101 01110101 11010111 11011111 10010101 11000101 11010101 01111111 11010100 11010111 11010101 10011101 11110111 11010101 11000101 010010101 010110001 01110111 11010111 111000101 01010101 101000111 11010101 1101001001 01001101 01100101 11011111 11011111 01000111 10011101 11010101 11010111 101011101 11010111 11010111 11011101 11011001 111111010 100100101 010111001 11001111 10010101 11010100 11101111 01010100 11111101 11010111 110101011 01010001 11010110 11011111 11011101 111111101 01011101 01011101 101101111 10010100 11011001 110101001 11010101 11010100 11010111 101101100 11101111 11011111 11110101 11011101 11111101 01011101 11111101 11011111 010000111 01101100 01101101 11111101 01110101 11111111 11011111 110010111 11110001 11011101 01011111 00011111 01010100 11110011 11011101 1101101110 11101111 11110110 01110101 10011111 10011111 101010101 110101010 11110101 01110101 10010100 11011101 11010101 01010101 01010100 11010101 11011111 11010111 110000111 0111111 11010111 10111011 101010100 01110111 10110111 11001101 11111101 11111101 11111111 110111001 01110101 01110101 1111001011 101110111 01010101 01010101 010101010 110101001 01110100 1001101100 101111101 01010011011 01010101 11010101 1001010101 00111101 11101101 01010110 111111111 11011101 11011101 11011101 11010101 111110011 11011110 10010111 01111011 11010101 11011001 01011101 11110111 01000111 10111111 110110000 1111010011 11110111 01010111 11101101 10010101 11110111 11111111 11010101 11110101 00010010100 1001010101 01110111 11010101 10111111 0111011100 10111111 10010111 01010101 11110111 11010101 11011101 11010101 11010101 01011111 1010001101 11111101 11101100 01111111 010011010 111111011 11011101 01011110 01111101 010000111 01010111 11010101 01110110 01011111 11101101 11010001 11011101 11100111 11000111 11011101 01010101 11011101 01010101 11011111 11011011 11110111 11011001 110100101 10011111 11111101 01010101 11010101 11110100 11011101 11111110 11110111 11110101 11011111 11111101 011100101 11101101 11111101 11110101 01011111 11000101 01110101 01110101 11010111 110101101 011111100 11010111 11110101 01010111 010010011 11010101 11100101 11010101 01010001 11100101 01111111 01010111 101111101 11011011 100011101 10011101 11010101 11010111 11011101 10111111 01110001 11110101 11111111 01011101 11111110 01100111 11110111 11001111 01011101 11110111 10010101 11111111 11010111 11111111 10010111 100010101 01111101 01110101 10111101 11110011 11010101 01010110 01110011 11011101 01010101 11100111 11010110 01110111 11110111 11110111100 10011101111 111111110 100010111 101101011 11111101 101010111 111110111 11010001 110010011000 10011001 10010011 11110101 101111111 100101110 100111011 1001111100 11100101 100111101 01010001 11110101 1111011000 11110101 11000111 01000101 01011100 10010001 110110101 11111111 111010111 11111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 28
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 556
  • Average number of words per stanza: 106
  • Amount of lines: 435
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; in, of, and, my, i, that, as, his, he are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, and, my, i, the, some, his, what are repeated.

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