This is an analysis of the poem The Vain King that begins with:
In robes of Tyrian blue the King was drest,
A jewelled collar shone upon his breast,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbbbXXccddbb aaaaeeaaffggXhh ffffaaffeieeXXccc jjaaeekk ffaahhaacc ffaaffccbXaXccXXkkkkcXlX aaaXeebbggbbaaccmmeXbX ccbbiihhjXccllXggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,15,17,8,10,24,22,18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101010111 01001010101 0101010001 10111100101 0101001101 0101111101 0101010101 0101110111 1101011001 1101010101 01010100111 010110101 1101011111 0101010101 1101110101 1101010101 1001110101 0101010001 1001001101 0111010101 1101010101 0101010101 0101101101 0101110011 0111110101 0101110101 0101010101 1111001010 0101110101 1101110101 11001010101 11001001101 0101110001 1101010101 10010100101 1100110101 0111011101 1101010101 01110111010 0100010101 0101010101 0101110101 01011101010 10010101001 1101110011 1010010101 1111010101 0101010101 0101010101 1101010101 0111010101 1101010001 0101110101 1101010101 1111010101 1111110111 1101010101 0111010001 1001110111 1111010101 0101010001 1001110101 1101111111 010101110101 11010010101 1111111111 10111001001 1111010001 0101010001 11010101001 1001010101 11010101001 0101111101 101001001101010 1101010111 101100100010 101010010101 10011010011 10101010101 101010101010 0101111101 10111010111 10001010101 10101000111 1101110101 1011000101100 11011010101 101111111110 1011010101 1111010101 1001010101 11011101010 1101110101 1111011101 0101010101 01001110101 01011100101 1101010101 1001110101 0101110101 1111011111 1101010001 1101110111 1101010001 1101000101 1101111101 0101010101 10101111110100 1101010101 100110111110 101110100101 1111010111 0101110101 1001010111 101001110110 101110101010 10111100101 10101011101 1000101001001 1011111011100 1001010101 110101110111 0101110101 0101010111 1101010001 0111011101 110101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 648
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 132
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; to, and, in, of, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, was, in, his are repeated.
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