This is an analysis of the poem The King that begins with:
They rode right out of the morning sun--
A glimmering, glittering cavalcade... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbbbX acacdddc Xdbd eeed Xbfbcccb fafaggXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,4,4,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100101 0100100101 0111011001 010101 10100111101 00100110101 1100100111 00100100 1111100101 0111001001 110101111 010111 10100100101 001111101 1010000101 100111 11111101110 11010111101 101101111 10111001 1110101111 1110101101 1100100101 1110101 101011001 10100100111 0011011110 1110101 1111100111 1010110101 1010110101 110111 1110101110 010100101 10111101010 1100101 1010111101 1111100101 100100111 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; of, and, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The King;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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