This is an analysis of the poem Gray-Eyed King that begins with:
Glory to you, inescapable pain!
The gray-eyed king died yesterday....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX bb cd eX Xc Xf dX aX e aa bb gg dX hh ff eX X b iijj cc acXcccb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,1,4,2,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001101001 01111101 0101011011 1100111001 111111001 110110111 110011111 011101110 110110100 11100111 11111101 110001011 111010101 1101100101 010010 111010 0111 1101101001 01111101011 00101011011 11001011001 11101011011 1011100111 11001111101 1011011101 1101101101 11001101001 111001111 100100111 1101101011 1001011111 010101001 1011001111 1001011011 101111111 1001011111 1011101111 1101111111 110111011 11011001 1101101011 1101011101 11001001011 1001001101 101100101
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 81
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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