This is an analysis of the poem The God Of The Poor that begins with:

There was a lord that hight Maltete,
Among great lords he was right great,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaaaX aabbX ccddX ddeeX XfggX hhiiX iijjX XakkX eXaaX XallX aadXX XeffX ddmXX ddnnX hheeX mehhX bnddX ddeeX aaeeX lliiX aabbX ooeeX ppddX XjXeX hheeX ddXmX aaooX iieeX ccddX ddffX meiiX ggllX ddeeX oollX XgqqX ddhhX hheeX hhnnX ddeeX eeaXX hhXeX XaiiX bbo
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011110 01111111 11111101 1111111 1011100 001011111 10010111 10011101 1011101 1011100 110101001 11110101 1011111 01011101 1011100 11011101 11010111 11110111 110111111 1011100 101011110 11111101 11001101 1010101 1011100 11010101 01010101 11010101 11010111 1011100 11110111 11110001 010111011 11110101 1011100 1011101 01010111 01000101 11110111 1011100 01110101 10101100 11110101 110110011 1011100 11111110 01101101 11011101 110010111 1011100 11011011 111011101 11011101 11011110 1011100 11111100 11010111 11110111 111110101 1011100 1111111 11010101 1011110 11010110 1011100 11111101 11110111 1111101 111100101 1011100 1100101 111100101 11110111 11111101 1011100 11100100 01011111 01010101 11010101 1011100 11000110 110011101 111100101 01110111 1011100 10101111 11111101 11011111 01010101 1011100 0000111101 01100101 01011101 101011111 1011100 010111101 01001111 11111001 11011101 1011100 11110011 11111101 110101111 11010101 1011100 111011111 11111101 10011111 01110101 1011100 011101001 110111101 11011101 11011101 1011100 011111101 11111101 111111101 11110101 1011100 100110011 11011011 01110101 11011101 1011100 10010001 11110110 001010110 110011100 1011100 10100111 1010011 11011111 11100101 1011100 110000101 11110101 10110101 11110101 1011100 11111101 11100101 10011011 100011101 1011100 110001001 11110001 11110111 11110101 1011100 11011110 11011111 11001111 11011101 1011100 100110111 01110111 11100111 10010111 1011100 11010001 111110101 110101001 11111101 1011100 11111111 10111111 11011101 10010111 1011100 11111110 11010111 1000101010 111101010 1011100 01011111 1010101 11101111 11100101 1011100 100100101 11110111 01010101 11110101 1011100 10010101 1011101 1011111 01010111 1011100 1111101 1011101 1011110 1111111 1011100 1110111 1001101 11011011 11100110 1011100 11100101 101011101 101110111 100100111 1011100 1110110 11111111 1110101 0111111 1011100 0110111 1010101 1011101 11111111 1011100 11110111 11111110 110101101 11001111 1011100 110100101 11010111 11010111 11110100 1011100 101101111 1110101 11011011 11010101 1011100 1010101 110100101 1010101 11011100 1011100 1110101 11110110 1010101 00111001 1011100 01111101 1011111 0101100 01111111 1011100 1110101 1110111 1111110 00110011 1011100 01111001 11010111 101011101 01110111 1011100 0111100 00100111 11011101 1110111 1011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 52
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 260
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; as, he, and, could are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words many, he, thou, and, they are repeated.

    The author used the same words he, i, they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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  • summary of The God Of The Poor;
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  • history of its creation;
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