This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of The Wheels that begins with:

King Dives he was walking in his garden all alone,
Where his flowers are made of iron and his trees are made of... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXcdceffee Ccaaaa Xgbgaccehheae Cceecc eeijicchckccaXa CciieX akadeececefkX ccaaXjc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,13,6,15,6,13,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111100010101 101011010101110 1 1011101010101 11 10101110111010 1 1101010111011 1 01010101010101 111111101011101 11011101010101 101011010101 111011010101 101011111101 101111010101 101110110101 111011011101 11111110101011 1 11101010101110 1 1110111011101 11 101110101101 1110101111111 001 111011110010001 111010101011101 11101101110101 01 101011010101 10011110111 101010110111 101010110101 101110110111 101011010101 1100101110111 101010101010101 01010101010101 010111111110 1 10101111111 1001101110111 100110010101110 1 1011111011101 01 11101110101110 1 1111111001101 11 101011010101 111010110101 111111010101 111111011101 101110010101 10111011111 1111100010001 1101110111010 1 10101010101010 1 111010101010101 100010100010101 11101110111 0001 1110111011111 11 0101010111010 1 101011010101 101010111101 10101010101 101110110101 001111011111 111111111111 001
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 439
  • Average number of words per stanza: 81
  • Amount of lines: 78
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; his, and, of, has, wheels, master, not, only, our, he, bind, them, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, steel, not, only, are are repeated.

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase not connects the lines.

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