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

Hot August noon: already on that day
Since sunrise through the Wiltshire downs, most sad... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efXf dgdg hiXi hehX dbdb jjjj fiXi fXfe abkb jdjd lclc bbbb dmdm fbXb hfhf fnfn nfnf odod lflf aaXa clXl jeje fofo bdbd eded dada eeee bpbp kdad qdXd lhlh ibib eXeX jiji elel bbbb hchc bebe baba Xljl hdhd inin fjfj dqdq eaea rXre Xdrd Xbcb hbhb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,1,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010111 1111011111 0111111101 1111110011 1111111101 1111010101 0111011111 1111011101 1111010111 0100010101 0101111100 0111011101 11000111001 101011111001 1111111111 11001011111 1111111101 1101111011 010111000010 0101011011 10111010101 1011010101 01110011101 0011011100 1000110101011 1111110111 1011010101 1101100101 10111110111 1001111101 1011010111 1011111101 10011011101 0011110111 1111101100 1101010101 10111111111 1001111100 1111111111 0111110111 10111011111 1101101101 1101111100 1111111111 10101111101 0111110011 0100110101 0011111001 10111010101 10011110101 1111011101 0011000101 10101011101 1101011101 1101111111 0111001111 10101110111 1111101101 11110010011 1101010011 1111010101 00100011101 1001100111 0101110111 101110100101 1111110111 0111101111 1111011111 10111101101 1111011101 0101110101 1101110111 10011110101 1011111101 1101010001 1101010111 10111110101 110111001 0101110101 11010010101 100111100011 1011110111 1001111111 0111110101 10001010111 1110011111 1101010100 1011010101 10111011101 1111011111 100111101100 11001011101 1111110101 1111011101 1101111011 1111010111 01001000111 0101001111 1100111101 1101011111 0101010011 1111111101 0101010101 1111110101 1101110111 0101110111 1111010001 00101010111 1101010101 0101010001 10111110101 00100011101 1111110101 11111101101 1100010101 11101011101 0010111111 0101011101 1101110001 1111110101 0101010100 1111010111 0101011011 10011000111 1111010101 1100110111 100101010100 1111011101 1101010101 0011110111 1110010101 1011010101 1101110101 1111110101 10110101001 001010111001 11101010101 1111000111 0101110111 1001010100 1111111111 1001110101 1100010101 1111101101 11001110111 1111100101 0111011101 10101110011 1111110001 1011110111 1111110001 10011011111 0101110111 1111010101 1101010101 1011010101 0111111001 1101011101 011100111 10001010101 10011011111 1101111111 1111110111 11011011101 10101111001 1111011101 0101111111 1101110111 101110011011 1111010101 1011001011 1111110011 101011011101 1111111101 01010111111 1111111101 10111010111 0101110111 1111011101 01010111101 10011111111 111100111001 11011100101 1101111101 11001110111 1011010111 1101110011 11011110101 10101110101 1101001000100 1111111111 1111011111 1011100111010 10101111101 1111111111 1101011111 100011111110 10101110111 0101010111 01111111 10101110101 11110111101 1100110011 1111111111 10110111101 1111011111110 10111110101 1101011100 10011011101 1101010101 0110111101 1111011101 10111110011 0101011100 1101011011 11011011101 10111010101 0111010111 0110110101 11110001110 1011111010001 1111010111 0101110111 0101110011 10101100100 1101111111 1100111101 1111010101 101110100101 101100101001 1101010011 10101010101 10001011000 0111010101 111010100 1111010101 10001010100 1101111101 1111011111 1101011111 10111001111 1001110101 1011110001 0111011100 1000101101111 1111100101 1010011101 1101011101 100110101111 0111101101 11001011101 1111101101 101111111111 11111001101 1101110001 1001110111 10100010111 1011110111 1111011111 1100011111 10011110011 1111111101 1111110101 1101111111 10111111111 01110101001 1111110100 1011011101 11110101000 10111010100 1111111111 0111011100 10101011111 00101011011 1101011111 0111101101 10100110111 1101111101 0011010101 101011001000 10111111011 0101110101 1011110101 00101011111 10111110111 1101111111 01001010101 0101101110 10001010011 1101110101 1111111100 0101111111 1010111011101 1111010001 1101100100 0101110001 10011111100 1100010111 01011111101 0111111101 10111011111 11001010111 1111110111 1110010101 101001111111 1100110111 0101110101 1001010101 10101010101 1001100100 0101010101 1101010101 10100010101 1101000101 0111111101 11010111101 10001110111 0101011110 0011111011 1111011101 10011010101 0111111101 1111111111 1111011111 1101001101 1110010111 1001010101 1001111111 10101010101 1101010101 1101000111 1101111101 10101000111 1111011001 1101110111 0101001101 10111000101 11011101 1101011101 1100111111 10111100101 1101010101 1100001101 1100011101 10111010011 1101011111 1111111101 0101111101 10011010111 1011011100 11011010101 1101001111 10111111101 1101010101 00101010111 10110010101 10001010011 1101110111 101101011000 0111110011 10111111111 1111011011 1111010111 11110101110 10101111111 1111011101 0100100111000 10001001101 10001010111 1111110111 1111010111 0101111101 100101101101 1010110011 1001111111 1101011101 10101011011 10100010101 1101001100 1011011101 10011111111 1111000101 1101111111 1011111111 10011110100 1111001101 10111100011 111111111111 1011 10001111101 0111000111 1111111101 1010011101110 1011100 10111010111 1111011101 1111010001 11111011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 101
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 398
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; he, in, and, would, me, my, i, green, night, still, her, she, on, you, cannot, kiss, not, of, they, your, ' are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, as, and, 'iseult are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ', not are repeated).

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