This is an analysis of the poem To The King Of Macedonia that begins with:
Thou may'st with pleasure hail the dawn,
And greet the morning's eye; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaaab cbcccb bbbbbb dbaaab ebeeeb aXaaaXXdbdddb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 110101 01010111 01010101 11010101001 101101 01110101 110101 110101001 1000101 1111010101 101101 11110101 1100101 11110011 011101001 1101010101 010111 11010111 010101 01010111 01011101 01011100001 101101 11010101 100111 10010001 11010111 0101110101 010111 111100001 110101 01000101 01010101 1110000101 110101 01010101 010111 00010101 01010111 0100011101 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; thy, to, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word die at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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