This is an analysis of the poem When George Was King that begins with:
Cards, and swords, and a lady's love,
That is a tale worth reading,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbaXccb dbdbeeb fdfdggd hbhXhXbXAbabddb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 1001110 10110111 1101100 111101 0101 101111010 10101111 0101010 10100101 1111010 111101 0101 101001010 10100101 1011110 10100101 0111110 111101 10101 101101010 10101101 0101010 010010101 0101110 111101 00100 111110010 11110101 1001110 11101011 1111010 111101 00101 101111010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word tales at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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