This is an analysis of the poem The Dead Kings that begins with:
All the dead kings came to me
At Rosnaree, where I was dreaming....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb deXe abfb dghg hXXX bXhX fahX cXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1011101 11011110 011100101 110101010 1100111010 01010101 01110101 101011101 11000101 0111001 01110101 11011111 111101010 010100110 11011101 0111101110 111111111 111101010 110101001 110101110 1111100010 11110111 010111011 01011111 1111101010 11110001 110111010 010100111 111101101 11011100 01111111 11110100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 33
- 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, ' 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.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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