This is an analysis of the poem That Holy Thing that begins with:
THEY all were looking for a king
To slay their foes and lift them high: ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 11111101 11010101 110101 11010111 11110101 11011111 110111 11111111 11111101 11110111 1100111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; thy is repeated.
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- summary of That Holy Thing;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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