This is an analysis of the poem King Seuen On The Occasion Of A Great Drought that begins with:
Grand shone the Milky Way on high,
With brilliant span athwart the sky,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccbbbddeffffe gghhbbfaafffiffjji aakkliilbbaffaaa bbddaffffffa aahXjmmjbbnnj nnhjjhffffhffhhh aaXjjXddccfbbf ddjbbbbjbbaddXaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,18,16,12,13,16,14,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010111 01010101 110101 11111011 01010111 111101 110111101 11110111 01010111 10011101 1100101 010010111 01010111 110011101 11011101 111101 11011111 01011011 01011101 11010101 111101010 101101110 110111 110010111 01110111 110001 110010101 11011101 1100101 11110101 11010101 01010101 11110111 010101 11011111 01011101 11010111 11110101 110101 11110101 010010101 110101 11110101 100111001 011101 11110011 11011101 11000101 01011101 010110 11011011 01011101 011111001 11111101 111101 01110101 11110101 01110001 11111101 11001101 11011101 001101 11011111 01110111 11010101 110101110 011101 010010101 01010101 100011 01110011 01101111 101100101 111001001 110111 11011111 10111101 100111 10111101 10110101 100101 10010111 11011101 01000111 11011101 110001 101100101 11111011 11110101 11110001 111001 11011101 11111101 110101 01011101 10110101 010111 01001111 111101001 11100101 11011111 111101 00111101 11110101 110101 11010111 11010111 110111 110111101 11001101 0111011110 1100011010 010111 11011111 11111111 011101 11101111 11110101 110100 11110011 11010111 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 505
- Average number of words per stanza: 95
- Amount of lines: 122
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, no, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, the, vainly, and 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.
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