This is an analysis of the poem Of The Three Seekers that begins with:
There met three knights on the woodland way,
And the first was clad in silk array:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeff GghHccggcc GghHddigbXjjXakk gXcccc kkXagicceellkXeeeekkcCkkcCkkaacccCggcCmmcCffmmdXllcc GgeekkXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,10,16,6,52,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110111 101110101 0101101011 101110101 1100110111 11111111 01111101 110110101 010111101 111010101 101111101 111011101 10010101 0110111101 10011111 111010111 11110111 11111101 111111001 1101111111 110101111 110011111 10010101 0110101101 10011111 111010111 11010111 11111111 1111110 11101101 111011001 11111110 11111011 11110101 11111100 11010111 110110101 11110101 10010101 11101111010 0011101001 001011101 001111001 11010101 111111111 1110011111 110010100 11101101 10010111 11110100 01110101 01010111 11010111 110010111 01010101 11000111 01110101 11011110 11010111 01110111 01110101 010100111 10111111 01010110 11110111 11111001 11111111 11010111 11111111 11111001 11111101 11111011 11111111 11011111 11111101 01010101 10111111 11111001 11010111 11101101 11010111 11111001 11111101 11111111 10011111 11111001 11100111 11110111 11010111 11010111 11010011 11110100 11010101 01110101 111100111 11111001 10010101 011111101 010110101 11010001 11111100 11011111 110101101 11011111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 658
- Average number of words per stanza: 132
- Amount of lines: 104
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, in, as, her, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
The author used the same word whither at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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