This is an analysis of the poem King Cophetua The First that begins with:
Said Jove within himself one day,
‘I'll make me a mistress out of clay!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbcbXaddeeeeffeeddXghhececeeeeaaXeiiccccee iiccaXccjjggbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 111010101 111101010 11011111 110111010 11010001 01010100 110101001 111111001 10010111 11111111 01111101 110010001 111010101 10010001 11010100 110100101 11011101 11110101 11010001 01001010010 110101010 10010101 11001101 01010101 010100101 010011101 11010101 111100001 11110011 11000101 00010111 11111100 01000101 100100110 10111100010 11110110 11111101 11110111 00111111 00100111 11011101 01110111 110101101 11011101 11110111 10111101 01110101 10110111 01011101 11000101 11110001 11010111 010111111 111111010 110111100 11111101 11100101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1027
- Average number of words per stanza: 187
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; of, as are repeated.
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More information about poems by Coventry Patmore
- Analysis of The Angel In The House. Book Ii. The Prologue.
- Analysis of The Unknown Eros. Book I.
- Analysis of The Angel In The House. Book I. Canto I.
