This is an analysis of the poem Ultima Thule: From My Arm-Chair that begins with:
Am I a king, that I should call my own
This splendid ebon throne?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbcc ddee ffgg ffhh iiff eedd jjkk llff cXaa eeffXeebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111111 010101 1111011101 110101 1001110101 010101 1001010111 011111 1101000101 100101 01001000101 010011 1101010101 010111 0101010101 110101 1101010001 101101 0101010001 100101 1111000101 110101 1111010111 110001 0101110101 010101 1100011101 110101 1101110101 010101 1101010111 101101 11010001001 110101 1011010101 010101 1111011111 010101 1011111011 111101 01101100101 100101 0101100101 010101 1011110101 110011 1111010111 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; i, in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, the are repeated.
The author used the same words and, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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