This is an analysis of the poem Royalty that begins with:

On a brilliant morning, in a city of lovely people,
A wonderful man and a wonderful woman...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbXXXcXXacbc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101010001001010 010011010010 01011001001 11111000011 1100011 111101100 111001011010 11010111 11111101010 1011010 11011101001011010 11000101 1101101001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 564
  • Average number of words per stanza: 104
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; they, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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