This is an analysis of the poem King Cophetua that begins with:

The crown falls out of his indolent hand; the crown that is his beautiful city of Arles with its high walls and ponds and square paved dams, with the...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01110010010110010010010001111111100110010101100110010110101000010101011011110101110010110011011010100101000111010001010101010101110010010011010100111010111011111110110100010101010100010101111001111010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 807
  • Average number of words per stanza: 148
  • Amount of lines: 1
  • Average number of symbols per line: 807 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 148
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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