This is an analysis of the poem The King's Sabbath that begins with:
Once idly in his hall king Olave sat
Pondering, and with his dagger whittled chips;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcddc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1100011101 10010010101 1111010011 10110010111 0111011101 1111010101 11110010101 0101110111 0101010101 1001000101 1100011101 1111010101 10011011111 11110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 625
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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, with are repeated.
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