This is an analysis of the poem The Three Kings that begins with:
WHEN the star in the East was lit to shine
The three kings journeyed to Palestine;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd ee ff aa gg dd hh ii gg ff aX jj gg ff iX aa ff hh dd ff eX gg hh dd hh ii ff aa bb gg gg gg kk hh jj ee dd kk hh iiXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1010011101 011100101 1100100101 011100101 011110101 1100110111 101001001 1011001101 1100100101 1100100110 111111011 0100101101 011101111 0010110111 1111101001 1111100111 1111100101 110101101 110111111 110100111 1101100101 110111101 1011111111 111111101 11100100111 0100100101 1111111111 111100110 1010100101 1110100101 101100111 1110110101 1100111111 10100100101 110101101 0010110110 110111101 0011100111 110101101 111001001001 1011011101 1010100101 1010110111 1010101101 1101100111 010110101 110100101 1100100111 1011110101 1111100101 1110101111 1110111001 1010100101 1010100011 10111110011 1011100101 1011110111 010100101 011010101 110100101 1100100111 111110101 110110111 110100101 010101111 11100100101 101111101 110111101 110110111 101011100 110111001 111010111 1111110101 1110100101 1010010101 10101101101 111110101 1101101010 111110111 010101111 110111111 011010101 111101111 010100111 1100101011 1010101111 1011101111 1100101101
- Amount of stanzas: 45
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 81
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 89
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; and, of, she, soul are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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