This is an analysis of the poem The Death King that begins with:
I hired a carpenter
to build my coffin...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXXdeXfgeb hdXigXhXXba bXiciXfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,11,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100100 01110 1111100 11010 1001 10011 111 100111010 1011 1001110110 100100101 01001110101 1000101 101010 11011011 1111111 11101001 11111000100 11110011 110101011 1111011 101101001 011010 11010010 101011 10110101101 010001 10111110 1010011 0100010110 0110100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 300
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; fear, as, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word fear is repeated.
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- summary of The Death King;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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