This is an analysis of the poem The Day That I Was Crowned that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aXXX XXXX XaXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 011111 1101010 0101010100 110010000 110001 110001 110001010 011100 1111110 110101 11100100 010000000 011100100 01000001 1101010100 11011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

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