This is an analysis of the poem The King's Kraal that begins with:
Daily the sound of the drums and trumpets' braying
Tolled out a victim's knell:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabacdcd beXefgfg bhbhiXiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100100111010 110101 10010101110 011111 10011011010 101111 10010101010 011101 10010100110 010001 1011010110 1101001 11010001010 011101 100100111010 011101 11010101010 110111 11011101010 010101 110010101110 111101 111101010100 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 305
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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.
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