This is an analysis of the poem On The King's Illness that begins with:
Rest, rest, afflicted spirit, quickly pass
Thine hour of bitter suffering! Rest awaits thee,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXXbdXbbdec ddcaeXeaaXbaaXc XXXecbXXcbcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,15,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010101 1100101001011 1101010111 01010101010 11011101100 0101111111 0011000101 11011011010 1101011101 1101111111 1111010111 0101110100 10111010101 1111010111 0111010101 1111110101 0111011101 10010011111 0100110100 1101010101 10110111001 010010101000 0101010101 1001110001 0111010101 0101011001 1111110101 1101010101 1100110101 1111000111 0101010101 1101110101 100101111 1011111111 10011110001 1101010111 1101110101 11001011101 1101110011 1001010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 582
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; rest, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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