Numbers and Structure
Since the numerology which Henryson almost certainly employed in his poetry has been increasingly understood in recent years, the counting of stanzas and positions for lines in Henryson's works cannot be assumed to be arbitrary. Use of numbers as a stylistic device was commonly found in medieval poetics.
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