This is an analysis of the poem The King Goes To War that begins with:
The wild geese fly the bushy oaks around,
With clamor loud. _Suh-suh_ their wings resound,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaBBbbCC dddBBeeCC dXdBbaaCC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111010101 0101111111 1111110101 0101010101 1101101101 1101110001 1111111101 11010110101 1111011001 0111010101 0101011111 1111110001 0101010101 1101101101 1111010101 1011011101 11010110101 1111011001 01011010101 1101010101 0101110101 0101010101 0111111101 1111011101 1111100000 11010110101 1111011001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 386
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 27
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word how is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word war at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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