This is an analysis of the poem Lyman King that begins with:
You may think, passer-by, that Fate
Is a pit-fall outside of yourself,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXXXXbXXXaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11110111 001111010 011111101011 110 110110010101 11101110110111 1011100010010 111001 011111011 001011100010 1111011111 110001111101 111111 11001010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 561
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; you, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines guest is repeated).
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