This is an analysis of the poem Kral Majales (King Of May) that begins with:
And the Communists have nothing to offer but fat cheeks and eyeglasses and
lying policemen ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcadeXdfbgaXfhXijXfkbXfbfgXXhdblmkbicjckXadXbflXacbalXfaaeemmikhbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 67,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010011001011111101 10010 10100010101100111000 10 10100011010010101010 101001011110100100101 1110 001000101111010100100 10 10100011110110111001 101 1110011000100100110010 11110111 1111010101100110101 0011100010010011 111010101111011100 1 1111011101011101 11100 11101110010011011010 1111001011101001101 1111011110100100100 101 10010110111110101 111 101011111101010110 11011110010001000110 10 11101011001001001 111010110110101101 110 111010110110000100100 1 111010110110101110 111 1110101100110101110 11 1110101100011101010010 101 11001010101100100 1101 010100010010101000101 11010 10101001000101001100 011110101011110101 0010 101111110101110110 10 111010111100101100 10101 010100011010101000 101 111010101111100110 010 01001011001111101010 01011100010111011 10010 1110101001010101011 10001 10110010101101101 111000110010101101 100 111101010101110101 1111100110101111 10110101010101101 11 0111001010110110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3294
- Average number of words per stanza: 607
- Amount of lines: 67
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, by, of, king, may, which, i, kingdom, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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