This is an analysis of the poem The King's Shame that begins with:
Near now the tale of Rodolf, and the grief
Of Osric, and the sorrow of the isles....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cbXdeXXfbgbhcijXkcjklkmfchfkiblfhbdfbnojcfp hjgidbaqihhXkeXXpXhipfXecaXqefrokdfmblflkmhgrpkmdglhbffblffoffnkkbdfqffflfgglimlbkiilkhfkqbdqXoXffobbkdidfocneeodebfbkaldj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,43,122,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010101 0101010001 1001010011 11110010111 1101010100 1111111101 111111001 11011101010 1101000100 1100010101 1101010101 1101110100 1101111101 1101110101 1001110001 0011011101 1001010001 1111010101 1011110101 1001010001 110101010001 1011010101 1011110001 0111010111 11110101111 0100010111 01010010001 1101110101 1001111101 01010110111 1101010001 011101111 11001011101 01110010101 1011110101 0111010101 1101110001 0101010111 1001011011 1110011101 0110010101 0111011011 1010010101 1111110101 1101011100 0111110101 1011011101 10010101010 1111110101 1111110111 11010010101 1001011101 1001011111 0101010111 11010101010 1011110011 1111110001 10110010001 1111010101 10111100001 110100101010 1111110100 01010111000 10110011111 11010010101 1111010100 111111011 0101010001 11010101111 1111010101 1111010101 1111111 111 0111010111 1001110101 01101100101 1111011101 1101110101 0101111111 1111111101 1111110111 01010101001 1101011101 010110111 11001011101 11001010111 1111010101 1011010111 1101110100 0111010101 1101110100 1101010101 1101110101 1101111101 11001111100 1111010111 1101010101 1011010101 1011010111 1011111111 0101010101 1111010101 1101110111 1101011101 1101110101 1101101101 0101110111 1101111001 1101010111 0111100001 11001011001 1111001111 0101010101 1101011101 11001110101 1101110 101 1100111011 1101011011 10110111010 101111110110 1001111111 1101010101 1111101001 1111111101 01001000101 1111010000 01001110101 0101010101 1111011101 1111110111 0101000111 1111110011 0101110101 1111010011 1101010001 0011110001 1101110101 01000010100 1111110101 1001010100 11010100101 11011101001 1101010111 1111110111 1011100101 1111001111 0101011100 1011000101 10100111101 1101100101 1111011101 1011111001 1101010101 1111101101 1111010101 0110010101 1111010100 0100110101 1110010101 10110111101 1001011001 1011111111 11011100001 1011010101 1001010001 11110010001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1811
- Average number of words per stanza: 351
- Amount of lines: 168
- 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; of, and, his, her, on, he, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, he are repeated.
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- summary of The King's Shame;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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