This is an analysis of the poem The King's Anxiety For His Morning Levee that begins with:
How goes the night? For heavy morning sleep
Ill suits the king who men would loyal keep....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeecc eeffcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101110101 1101111101 011100011 01010101001 0101011101 110010111001 1101111101 1111010101 0101100101 11010101101 0101011101 11001010111 1101111101 0101010101 0111111101 1100010101 1101011101 1111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; its is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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