This is an analysis of the poem The King Of Candyland that begins with:
Have you heard of the king of Candy land?
Well, listen while I sing,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dadaee fgfghh ebebaaXhghgaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010101 110111 111011001 1100101 110010101 1100100101 11011101 1010111 011101101 1010101 110110101 110100111 1110101101 01010110 1100101011 1111010 111110001 11011101 111100101 10100001 01111101 1110101 1111111111 1110111101 110110101 1111010 111101001 1111110 1111100101 110010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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, they 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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