This is an analysis of the poem King Shall Hold Kingdom. (Anglo-Saxon Chronicles) that begins with:
King shall hold kingdom. A castle is seen from afar,
artful work of giants yet on earth...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbcdcebccddbfghgcddfhXcgifaeiXaeegidgedeXdedajideffbcdXicjgeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 63,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001001001 101010111 100111101001 1010011101110 101010010 1101101 1011011010 11011001001 011111 10101010 1011010010 100011101 1111 1110100010 0111110 10100111010 111111 111111 0111101 011011011 1101101 01011101 111101101 100111101 11011111 10101010101 11001011010 01011111 1011111 1111001011 011111010 1101000101 110011111 1010111 11110010 01011111 0101111100 11010101 11011001 11010010 100111001 111011010101 1011101010101 1010111001 110100111101 1001110111 101110111 011111101 100101000010 100010001101 010111011 1110101001001 10011100 0111010011 10111001 11011101 1011001011 00101010 01110010110 10101111 101011101 100101001 010001011011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2564
- Average number of words per stanza: 449
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, on, and, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word shall is repeated.
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