This is an analysis of the poem The Poor Man's Guest that begins with:
ONE came to me in royal guise
With banners flying fair and free... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dede fdfd aXaX bgbg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 01010111 11011111 11010101 111111010 010100111 110111110 11110101 11010011 01010101 11011100 11110111 11111111 11101101 11111111 11011011 110100101 11011101 11101101 11111111 11111111 110111100 11011101 010010111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i, my, him, in, but are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, but, and are repeated.
The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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