This is an analysis of the poem Sir Peter Harpdon's End that begins with:

In an English Castle in Poictou. Sir Peter Harpdon, a Gascon knight in the English service, and John Curzon, his lieutenant.
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  • Rhyme scheme: a X bcde F gh X Xa F ih X ij F kclk X e lhc h mdh e F anlk X o F nkk X d F klkn X k F nXklnlpckijXclflgqgkajcr X mkmjgh F cb X c h F lhXaXXjsmgaalhXhljqtXcmdnalkjicrtjhakhjigkigjtmXjXjmmfXmXmbXujgmtlaXibchnXgkalajlsui X hhfgahhlrbhl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,4,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,4,1,1,3,1,3,1,1,4,1,1,1,3,1,1,1,4,1,1,1,24,1,6,1,2,1,1,1,1,84,1,13,1,1,1,2,1,3,1,1,1,12,1,2,1,3,1,1,2,1,21,1,2,1,3,1,1,1,35,1,3,1,5,1,3,1,5,1,1,3,1,3,1,1,5,1,1,1,1,6,1,1,1,6,1,9,1,13,1,4,1,6,1,3,1,3,1,1,1,8,1,1,3,1,20,1,1,4,1,5,1,3
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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  • Amount of stanzas: 171
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 1005
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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, john, sir, to, and, your, i, what, that, you, would, my, at, good, talk, thief, not, help, so, me, somehow, should, ', of, him, then, sake, some, fail are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, edward, will, my, i, music, that, what, you, or, their are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines stone, ', grieve, alive are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word lambert at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases all, you, i connect the lines.

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