This is an analysis of the poem Old King Cole that begins with:
In Tilbury Town did Old King Cole
A wise old age anticipate, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcccc dedefghg ijijkaka lhlhffff mbmbcgcg dXdXbbbb babaclcl mlmlkfkf nlnlmbmb bobopjpj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 011010111 01110101 010000111 11010001 11010101 1100101110 11010101 110111010 01000101 11000101 11110101 11110111 10110011 110101110 11101101 010111010 01000101 01010111 11110101 11011101 11110101 110001010 01010001 011101010 01111111 11110101 11010101 11100001 01011111 111101010 01010001 010101010 11010101 11011101 111100101 11010111 11011111 110101110 11011100 100101110 111101001 11001000 11111101 11010100 11101101 110101000 11011111 0101010001 11001101 111100001 01011111 11010111 11010101 110111110 11110001 110100010 11011101 11110101 11111111 11010001 01011101 111111110 10110111 110101110 01110111 01111101 11111011 001101101 10111111 111101010 11010110 110111010 11011101 11010101 11111101 11111110 101110111 111111010 11110101 100101010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 275
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and, went, on, of, i, my, to, may are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, and, this are 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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- summary of Old King Cole;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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