This is an analysis of the poem The King Of Asine that begins with:
All morning long we looked around the citadel*
starting from the shaded side, there where the sea, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcddefX XghiXjhbcXabeagklck glXaljfmajfnhX mCgChnlgXXclfhiXklhk fckfXlhg X X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,19,14,20,8,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111010101 10001011101 110110100111 0111101110000 101110101 101101011001 101011011000 10001010010 10101000 1010101101 10110101011 11010111 10101011010011 101 010101110110 10110010011010 111011001 1100100110001 1011011 0111111001 01010011001 10101101011001 1111 101011 10010010001101 0010101101 1000101 100101 0101101101 10011011001010 011111100101 0011001 0110101 1011101110 00101 0101 101101101 0010010 10111010110 10101011110110 10001 0010100100101010 101010101011101 111001 0111011011011 111001 111101011110 1101010001100 100 0111110011 110101101110 01100 10111001101 00101010010010 111101100010 10100010011110 10001 10101010101101 10001 10001101001010100 1101 01001 10001110 10010010101 1011110101 1111110001 010 101011100100100 011001100101 01 101011011 1011010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 416
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; in, and, his, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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