This is an analysis of the poem Knight Aagen And The Maiden Else that begins with:
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X Xaba bcdc beXX XAfA XdBd bghg Bghg bdfd cgXg XiXi bada icdc jaXk jXeX XAeA bclc efXg XdXd bama mmkm mlllXbcdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100010 0101110 0111101 110101 111101 110101 100101 111111101 11100111 010101 110101 111101110 0011110 1001110 101111 11010010 1110110 01111111 1010111 110101 111110 110101 1010111 110110101 111101 110101 110111 11011111 111101 110101 1010111 1110001010 010111 111010101 111001 1110011110 110101 101110 101111 011000111 110101 1101110 1010101 1100110 1110101 11011100 110011 1101110 0010011 10011010 0011011 10011111 1110100 10011010 0011110 10101011001 1001110 1001110 101111 110100111 1110110 111101 0100101 111010111 110111 11011111 1001110 1101110 10100101 11100110 100101 1101110 1010111 101101 101101 11111111 110010 111001001 0010111 1111110 010001 111001001 00101101 01110001 1011101 111101 110101 11111101 1110001
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 90
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thou, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, hearken are repeated.
The author used the same words now, but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word before at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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