This is an analysis of the poem The King And The Naiad that begins with:
When the wrongs of peace grow mighty,
They beget the wrong of war,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb cdcd efeX XgXg ggXg Xfdf chah iifi Xjij icic eded ekXX ihXh elel Xkdk gmimXclel
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101110 1010101 11101010 1010111 1101011 110111 1111011 001101 1111010 100101 1110010 100101 1011010 0110101 11100100 10011001 00111011 1110101 10101010 1010101 1011010 1011001 10101110 0111111 10011011 1010001 00111010 0010101 01111110 1111101 10101110 1010111 001111000 0111101 00111010 1111101 10101010 1010111 01000010 001011 11101010 1010101 10101010 1010101 11111110 00100001 10101110 1110101 10010010 1110101 101010100 1010101 00111010 1011111 111010010 1010100 1011101 00100001 11111110 1010101 10101110 0011101 10001010 1011111 11111011 1011101 111010010 1010001
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; her, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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