This is an analysis of the poem The King's Grief that begins with:
The king was lonely, the king was sad,
Sad in his youth, when the world was glad:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeffffdd ccbbggdd Xa fhXe i dacjb dhbaaf bXXcagbkkcfjdfah biaihfjagcdf fkjfbccjfdfgejefcXe aicf Xbcgea ac bbXXkabXXbebefbfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,2,4,1,5,6,16,12,19,4,6,2,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011100111 100110111 11110101 10110100101 1011101101 111100101 1011001001 100110101 1011111101 10100111 110101101 110100101 110111101 010100101 100110101 101100101 1101110101 110100111 0011101111 10101101101 010101011 111100111 101010111 0110110101 11010010 0101 11011011111 11011010011 1101011111 01111 01101110 11011110111 1111111111 1111001101 1101110100 1111010 01111 1111111101 0111011111 10001010111 0111010111 0011011 11101 0111010001 1101011000 11111101001 0101010001 0111010001 1110111111 10110011 001 1111010101 1101010101 1101010101 1111110101 1011110101 1111011011 111 011011101 1111110 101 1001010 111 1101110101 1111110110 1111010111 1101010001 11111000101 1011111111 101111 11111 1101111101 1101000101 1111011101 0111110100 1101011100 11110110101 1111011101 1111011011 1010111101 0101011101 11100100001 01111101110 1111001100 1111111111 1111011111 111010111101 11111110100 1111 01111101 111100110110 011101001001 1011 1110101 1101010101 11011001010 0101010 111 111111 011101 100101 11111 1111111101 1101110011 11111011100 1111011101 1101111111 0101011101 1001011111 01110101 11010100 10010111 1101 11110101 11111101 11100111 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 119
- 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; his, and, thy, to, thee, this, i, thou, hast, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, that, thou are repeated.
The author used the same words but, king at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word king at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases sad, farewell connect the lines.
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