This is an analysis of the poem A Historical Problem that begins with:
KING AHASUERUS in his palace at Shu-Shàn
Gave a feast unto his princes, Tarshish, Meres, Memucàn,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaa bbcc ccdX ddee XbXf gghh cchh cccc dXii gghh jjff iiii ccaa ffkk lldd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1010100010111 10110010101010 111010101011001 101010101011111 11011101111101 1100010101011111 01010100010101 11010101010101 11110100010111 01001100010101 01000101111101 110000101011100 11110101111111 11110111011101 11011101011101 1100100111110101 1100110111110010 101010101011111 1101010101010 11001010111001001 11100110101110101 101110101010111 11010101011001 11000101010110 011101110100101 11010101111001 110101010100101 101010100010101 101010101011101 101111101100111 111010101110101 1110001010010111 1110101001010001 101000100010100 0010010111110001 001010100111101 1010010101010001 01010110101001 111010101101001 001111101010111 111011101011111 111110101110111 111110100010111 1010101010011101 11010001010111 01010100110001 1101110100010101 101000101110001 11111100110101 110111111100101 111011110010001 100010100010110 11110101110101 11011101110001 1110100010111 111111001010101 101111100000101 011000100110101 1010010101010111 111001101001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, one, they, his, of, to, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, hen, are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines n, are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.
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