This is an analysis of the poem The Speeding Of The King's Spite that begins with:
A king--estranged from his loving Queen
By a foolish royal whim--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcX eafagaga ghghgbXb ijijedfX djdjidiX acacakak jijijaja ajajaXaX laladjdj fjejbbbb aaaaidid cacahehe dcXcldld aiaicicX XdXdidiX amamkXkX dbdbgegX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 010100101 1010101 101100101 0100101 10011001 1101101 101011101 0101001 1011100101 1010111 1010100100 0101101 1111110101 1111111 110110101 1010101 011100101 101001110 1100100101 101001010 011010111 010101001 1101101010 0010111 111010101 1010101 10100101 1100101 1011110101 1010101 010100100 10101100 1011101001 1010101 100110101 0100111 11101101 111101 111110101 110101 110100101 100101 11100101 0100101 110100111 1000101 110010101 011111 110100111 00101101 1111100101 0110101 111110101 1110101 111111111 1101101 1101111001 1100111 1111001001 010101 1011110101 11101100 0100100101 0101101 1101111001 100101 0011100101 1010101 111010111 111001010 10100111 00100100 110100100 101111 1111010111 1001100 1111100101 101101 101001101010 110001 10111011001 1101001 0110110101 111111 1010101001 1011011 110010101 0100101 101001001 10100111 100101001 0010001 101010001010 1001001 1011001010 01101011 1011110101 1011101 1011101110 0010111 1010100101 1010111 101100101 1011001 1010100111 1100101 100100101 011101 1011100101 11100111 11011101 1110101 111100101 1011101 0010100100 110111 11111101 111101 110100101 0101001 101110101 0010001 1011100101 11100111 111100011 11101101 101111101 01101001 101100111 10101101 000110101 0110101 1101101001 11101101 100110101 11101100
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 136
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and, as, of, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words one, then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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