This is an analysis of the poem King Cophetua And The Beggar-Maid that begins with:
I read that once in Affrica
A princely wight did raine,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXaXbXccca dXdcXXXccccX dbXbXXXbeeeb cfXfgggXffXX XchXiiihXXXc gXgXcccXccXX XXXjbbbfXXjX didicccicjfi XbcbXXabeXXb gaXXhhXaXccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110100 010101 1101100 110101 01011001 11111011 1111101 100110 11110101 11100101 11010101 010101 010111011 010101 11011111 011101 11011001 11110101 10010101 1101111 11010111 11011010 110100101 110010 10010101 111101 010100101 010101 111100101 111101101 1101110 110101 11011101 10110101 01011001 111101 11110101 111001 1111010 110101 11111111 11011011 11010101 0111100 10011101 10010111 110101010 110110 11011100 010111 10011100 110101 01000101 11010111 01010101 110000 011100110 11001101 11111110 111111 11111011 1100111 01110111 110101 11010100 110010001 11111101 111111 10111111 10001111 01110110 011111 11010111 100110 010100101 010101 01010101 11101111 11011111 110101 111101001 11111110 11111111 1101110 11010111 010101 01001111 010101 11010111 101110101 11010101 110101 010101011 01110101 01110111 1101001 1111100 11111 0110101 010101 110101010 01011111 11111011 010111 10111101 11011101 11010101 101100 11110101 101101 10010101 110101 01110100 01010100 0101100 110011 11011100 10010101 10110101 0100101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 380
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 120
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; he, my, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words but, the, and, their are repeated.
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