This is an analysis of the poem King Claudius that begins with:
My mind now moves to distant places.
I'm walking the streets of Elsinore,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeXabdXfgXhfigacjkhglllledfjXilgdcejcflkmljkhXgfXglXfngkbkgfkabkfemefgegaecllglligeankdlk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 92,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101010 010010101 1011101 010110 101001 11010 0101100010 0101001 111100 10010100 010101 01111 0101101 001001010 10110001101 101101 10110111101 001001 0100010010 1101011 110100001 010101010 10100001010 101101110100 111101 11101010001 1101001001 01010100101 011001010 1100010 011100001 1111001100 10001010110101 0111011 00101001 10100011100 11110110101 101010 101110101 101011011 11111101010 1111100001 1011101110 00111 01101111 010011 10100111 101010 11011 11010101 110111 010110 011110010 00010100111 11110 101010111 101110001 111101001 1101010 1010011011 010010110 110010101 110110001 111010010 100101110 101001011 1011010101 11010101 110101 011101001 11011010 10110010 1101110 1100010110 011000100 1101010 0111010100 100110111 1001110 10100101 10110011010 011011 010011 010101100101 110011 11011 101111101 101011010 11001100 110011100 1101011 010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3095
- Average number of words per stanza: 556
- Amount of lines: 92
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; he, ghost, his, this are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, had, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ghost, that are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase wine connects the lines.
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- summary of King Claudius;
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