This is an analysis of the poem The Lay Of Christine that begins with:
TRANSLATED FROM THE ICELANDIC.
Of silk my gear was shapen,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabaA bcccA dabaA ebebA cebeA dacaA faaaA gbgXA chXhA eagaA gafaA XcccA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01000010 0111110 101011 10011111 11001001 110100101 01011111 110110 01011101 110111 110100101 1101010 0110101 111110101 1011111 110100101 11111111 0011101 11111101 1110101 110100101 1010111101 0101011 11010111 111111 110100101 11110001 100111 101110001 101111001 110100101 110010011 111101 11010101 1111101 110100101 110011111 1000101 11010111 0110110 110100101 11000101 110101 111100111 110101 110100101 1111111 1111110 1010101001 100111 110100101 11011111 111101 10101101 0010101 110100101 11110101 111101 11100101 110101 110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 61
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; slew is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.
The author used the same word ah 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 away is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word away at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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