This is an analysis of the poem Minstrels that begins with:
The minstrels played their Christmas tune
To-night beneath my cottage-eaves;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababaa bbbbcc cdcdee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 01011101 11010101 0010010101 110111001 1101011001 111101001 11010101 11011111 11010001 11110001 110101001 11110111 010100111 010100101 01001111 10010101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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.
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