This is an analysis of the poem The Ruby-Crowned Kinglet that begins with:
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Where's your kingdom, little king?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccbaab ddeeddccaaeeddddeebBXbeebffb gghhgXddggeecccciiaaddggddeebBXbggbffbXccggggaabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,28,49,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1110101 1011111 1110111 10010101 1010101 1011101 101 1010101 1010101 1010101 1010001 1011101 1011101 1011111 1110111 1010101 1010101 1011111 1110011 1010101 1010101 1010101 11101001 1111101 1111111 1010111 1010101 1 1011101 0110101 0010111 1110111 100100010 10111010 111 10101010 11101010 1010001 10100101 1010101 1110110 1010101 1010101 1000101 1011101 1011111 1011001 1110101 1010101 1010101 1011001 1010111 1011101 10100101 1010101 10111001 10101011 1010101 10111001 1010101 1110101 1111101 1010011 1111111 1010101 1 1010101 1011101 1110101 1001001101 01101110 11100010 101 1011101 1010111 1111101 1010011 1010111 1110111 1011111 1110111 1011111 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 630
- Average number of words per stanza: 108
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, i, there, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, there are repeated.
The author used the same word far at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word king at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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