This is an analysis of the poem King And Father that begins with:
Mountains and vales, how ye quake 'neath His tread—
Wake from your slumbers, He calls, O ye dead!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccddddXXeeffddggcc hhaXccaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1011111101 1011011111 1011101101 1111101011 01001011101 101101101011 1111111011 1001011001 1101011011 11001011001 01011011111 01001111001 110011110010 010101001111 1011001111 1011011011 11011111001 11011101001 101001001101 11101001001 11001111001 111001011011 1011011111 11011011001 1110011001 01001111001 1011011011 1011001110 1001101011 1011111011 1001111101 1110011011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 742
- Average number of words per stanza: 136
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; his, at, thy, in, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, endless are repeated.
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