This is an analysis of the poem Planh For The Young English King that begins with:

If all the grief and woe and bitterness,
All dolour, ill and every evil chance...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcdXca aaXedXba aXfXdeXa aXXXdfaa aXXadgga
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101111100 11011100101 1101010101 0101011111 0101001101 111011100 01101011101 10111101110 1011110100 11010100100 0101010100 10111011110100 0100001101 1101011100 1101100001 01010101110 1101110100 11111101101 110110110110 11001101100 1101001101 11000111010 111111001010 11110001110 0011110100 11011101010 11101101010 11011111000 1111001101 11110111001 1001011100 11111011010 1101111100 01010110100 110111100 11111001110 1101101101 1101011100 11100100010 11101111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 350
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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, in, that, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word sadness at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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