This is an analysis of the poem The King And The Shepherd that begins with:
Through ev'ry Age some Tyrant Passion reigns:
Now Love prevails, and now Ambition gains ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaXb ccdd eeddXXaaddfffggccccXXee aabbbbhhh iiaahhffaaXhbbjjddffbbbaaabbaaaa aaddXjjggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,23,9,32,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101110101 1101110101 1011110101 10111001001 1111010101 11010100010 00110100001 1101111101 1111110101 1001011111 1111010101 0101010101 0101100101 11011010001 1001110101 0101010111 0101110101 1101110101 0101110001 1011011101 0101010101 10001011101 1111110001 1001010101 11010111101 1101010001 1101000101 0101110101 0101110111 1111011101 1001110110 1101100101 1100111101 01011110001 010011000101 0101111101 1101111101 1111000001 1100111101 01111100001 1101011011 0111010111 0101110101 1111100101 1111010001 101001011101 1001010001 11001110101 0101100101 1111010101 0001010101 0101010101 1110001101 1101010110 1101000101 0111010001 1111010101 1101010101 0101110101 011001100111 1101010101 1101010101 1001110001 01011110001 0101111101 110101010101 1011000101 1001011101 11011010101 1111011101 111101110111 1100010101 1101010101 1111010011 110101110101 1001110101 0111110001 1111011101 0001110101 0111101101 0101011111 1101011101 1101111111 1100101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 540
- Average number of words per stanza: 92
- Amount of lines: 86
- 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; and, that, to, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the, welcome are repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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