This is an analysis of the poem Blue-Blood that begins with:
We thought at first, this man is a king for sure,
Or the branch of a mighty and ancient and famous lineage—...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cccc XdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110100111 1010010110110100 11010010011001 11111001001001 0010101001001 110010110101 11011001101001 01011101101001 1101101100100 0111101101101 101110100111 11101111111001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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