This is an analysis of the poem The Red King that begins with:
The King was drinking in Malwood Hall,
There came in a monk before them all:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXccXddeeffggaahhfX ggiijjbbaaXfX kkgglllffkXkXbbbbaaX fXfddgggXffXbbbXXf dXdd X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,13,20,18,4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011100101 110010101 11111111 110010110 11100111011 010010111 010101110 1111100101 11111101 1101100101 1100111001 10110100 111101111 110111111 11011111 11011001011 101101101 11010101 01110101 110111111 111100101 01110111 11011111 111101010 01001101010 110111111 111111101 010101111 11101010101 011100101 11111111 110110111 110111101 010110101 01110101 01011101 01010111 1101101011 11011101 01010101 110010101 010100101 010010111 111110101 011010010110 1111010101 10111111 110011101 1101101101 1100100101 010110101 010110111 1011100101 1110101111 10111111 110010111 11100111101 111011101 01110111 0100111001 110110101 110110101 110011100 11111111 01110101 11111111 11010101 11010101 11010111 0101100100 1111010 11011101 111101001 01111100 11110101 11010101 001101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 495
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; i, and, for, he, hart, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, his, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Red King;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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