This is an analysis of the poem The Horn Of Egremont Castle that begins with:

ERE the Brothers through the gateway
Issued forth with old and young,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xababbcc bdXdeeff bghiffff abXbXggX fdeXffgg XbXbffjj fXhbggdd hbebbbkk kdedgibb lfbfggdd hflfddbb fbbbgggg XkhkddbbXllblllbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101011 1010111 00111010 1110111 1011111 1101101 11111101 0100011101 101010001 1010101 10111010 1110101 11001010 10101010 11010101 1011010101 00111010 1010111 11101110 1110100 1110111 1011101 01110011 1111011101 10101110 1011111 01101110 1110101 1011110 1000111 01110111 1101011101 11101010 1111101 11101010 01101010 1011110 1100101 11010101 0101010111 11111010 0011101 110011100 1010001 1110101 1110101 11011101 0101111101 10101010 1110101 10101010 11100101 1110111 1111101 01011111 1101011101 11111110 1010101 1001110100 1010101 0010101 1011101 11011111 11110111111 11100011 11111011 11111110 1111101 1110101 1101100 01010101 1101001101 11111110 1101111 10111010 1000101 1110101 1111111 01110001 1101010101 10100110 1010101 10101110 1010001 1010101 1010101 11010101 1111011101 10101010 10100111 11101011 1000111 1110000 1010101 11010001 1101011101 11111010 0010111 10101010 1010101 11101010 10101010 10010101 0101011111 11101010 10101001 10101110 1010101 1111101 1110101 01010001 1001110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 112
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; of, be, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, and are repeated.

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