This is an analysis of the poem The Robing Of The King that begins with:

ON the bird of air blue-breasted glint the rays of gold,
And its shadowy fleece above us waves the forest old, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddbbeeffeeggXXaaccccdddd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010111010101 10100101110101 11100101111101 1010101011101 11101010110000 10101011011101 1010101010101 1011101010101 1010101011101 1011101010011 1011001010111 10100010100111 1010111011100 1010101000111 00101110100101 1010101010101 1010101010101 10100101010100 1011101011101 111110111010 101100010010101 1011101010101 10100101010101 1010101110101 11111010101101 1010010011101 1011101010101 1011111010101 11101010010101 1010110000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1724
  • Average number of words per stanza: 292
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; , of, and, in are repeated.

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