This is an analysis of the poem The Condition Of King Seuen's Flocks that begins with:
Who dares to say your sheep are few?
The flocks are all three hundred strong....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedeff bfbfff XXcXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 01111101 11011101 11011101 1101110101 0101011101 11011101 11111101 01111111 11011101 0101110101 1101011101 11011101 01011111 11011101 01111100 0101011101 1101110001 11011101 01110101 01011100 01010100 1110010001 010101010010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; and is repeated.
The author used the same word your at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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