This is an analysis of the poem The Sultan's Companion that begins with:
A Sultan once had a faithful companion
Always repeating verbatim...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcaXadXcdefegecaheceXceegaXbdhcfeaeaXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01011010010 11010010 1100101 111111010 0100110101001 01011111101 11101001110 11111010101 111111 010101100000100 010010010 1110 00001001 01011001 10101001011 001100110001 101001110 0101011100 01011100101 0101 1100110101 111001010001 0010100 010010110101 11111110100 0101010001 1010010 11011001 1010111010011 10100010 111101 00101 1011100 11011001 11100010010 100100011 011110011 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 670
- Average number of words per stanza: 120
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; sultan, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word it is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.
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