This is an analysis of the poem The King's Quire (Excerpt) that begins with:

...
Bewailing in my chamber thus allone,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXb cdcdXXX XeXXfdd dgXggdd XhXhXXcX XXXbXiX dXddXXX hXXXXXX jkjkXXX hXhXXlX XXXXXXd XcXccXj aXXXXee XbXbbjj XXXdXlX ijXjXXX dXXXXlX bXbXXXd XXXXaXX XXXXXXX XXdfXXX XebfXXi XXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 0,7,7,7,7,8,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1000110110 100011110 1100111110 1001011100 01101111110 1101110101 1111010011 1111110101 01011001001 1101010111 100111011 1101111101 111110110 110111011 1101010101 10010100110 11010010101 0111100 1011010111 1101000101 0101010101 11011101 010110011 1111010100 1101111101 1101010101 1011100101 1111001101 10 100111001001 10110100110 1101101001 11010110110 01111111001 11000111101 11111001010 10101110101 110101100100 1110111101 0101110111 1100110110 11001111001 1101111101 01011011 1101101111 100100110101 10100110001 10100001110 0010111101 111101000100 111110110100 1100110111 100111100 0001110101 1111010110 110111011 110011010 10110011100 11010011111 10111011101 1111110111 1101111110 1110111111 1010101001010 10111011111 0111011111 0111110101 1111010110 0101100101 1101100101 11010101110 1101111110 10111101001 1100110101 010101011 11011110111 11010011010 0101110011 1111100101 11011101101 01100010110 10011001101 1100110111 1100101010 111100111 1011111100 111110110 1111110100 01111100101 111101111 1011101010 110010100010 101111001010 1101011101 1111010010 11100011001 0101010111 101111010100 1110001100 10101001111 0111110110 1101011111 10111111101 0101010011 11011110111 110010110010 10101011111 1001100111 10011101101 1111010101 1100111100 1110110111 1101101101 1101011111 0111011110 01110001010 111010101 01011001110 1111010101 11010111011 101010111 10011001000 1111110001 01011001100 110011001100 1011011111 110010101 01111010110 0100101100 100011010011 101110100 1101011100 1010011101 111111101 110111110 11110111010 110011101100 1101111101 1101110110 01011101000 11100011111 0111101010 110110010 1101111101 10001011101 01001110110 0101010100 1101111110 11010111100 111101010 1100111111 0011011101 1010110110 11011110010 11101111010 10101010100 01011101100 1011110100 1110010101 0110111110 1111111101 110111011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 23
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 312
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • Amount of lines: 164
  • 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; and, e, it, he, to, ye, my, of, so, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words , that, quhat, and, or, in are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines , chere are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.

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