This is an analysis of the poem King Candaules And The Doctor Of Laws that begins with:
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring;
As proof, Candaules' story we will bring;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ccbbddeeffgghhiiddjj ffbbffddbbeebb ccffdd ddkkllll ffffccbbff mmhhhhdd ggnnffeellccbbff bbbb oobbggXfff cXffbbcciibbffdd ffbbff ffddcchhnnii jjffppcccc bbhhbbddffllbbddpiccffbbqqbbbbf fkkbb ffffggdl ggkkffbb jjccbb ffXb ffXlrrbbffddhh jjbbkkbbccaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,20,14,6,8,10,8,16,4,10,16,6,12,10,31,5,8,8,6,4,14,18,20,8,22,6,47,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01110101001 1110010101 0101011101 0101010101 0101001101 1101010111 1111110011 0101110001 1111011001 1101011101 1111110111 010101101 1101010101 1101011101 0101110001 1111010101 1101010111 0111010101 1101010101 1011010101 1001110001 0111111101 1111000111 0111110101 1101010001 1101011101 01111101010 11110101110 1111010011 1101010101 01000110011 1111011101 0101111111 0100011101 0101010101 1000111101 1101110001 0101010101 1101110111 0111110101 0101010101 1101110110 0101010011 0101010101 0101101001 1101010111 1101010001 1101011101 0101010101 1001010101 1101010101 0101011101 1101110101 1101110101 1101110101 1101010101 1101010101 1111110101 0101110101 1100111101 1101010111 1100100101 1011001001 00100110101 1101011111 1101110101 0101010101 1101011101 0101011101 1101110101 1100111101 0100011101 1101010101 1101110101 10101110101 1001100011 1010110001 0101010101 01011100101 11110010101 0111010101 0111010101 1111010111 01010101001 1101010111 0101010111 11010011010 10011100010 1101010101 1101010101 0101010001 0101010011 11110110001 010110101 1101010101 0110010111 1101010101 1101010101 11001010110 1001010011 11011101010 01111111010 10101110101 1111111110 0111001101 1001000101 1101110101 0100010111 0111010111 1101110111 1100010101 0111011001 1101010101 1101100101 1101010101 0101010101 0101010001 1101010100 1101100101 0101010101 01010110011 0111001101 11000110101 1111010101 010111101 0101010011 0101010101 1010010101 1101010101 1111110101 1101010101 1111110101 01010101001 1101110101 10111110011 1111110101 0101011111 1101111101 1101101101 1111010001 01011111010 11010111010 1111010111 1101110101 1111000101 1011110111 111101010001 0101111011 1101111111 1111110101 1101110111 1100010101 1111110101 0111010101 1101010101 1111111001 0101011111 1001110101 0111010101 0111110001 0101011101 1101110111 11010100010 1101010101 1111001101 1111010011 111101101 1100010101 0111010101 1101111101 1100111111 1111011101 1101111111 0101111101 1001011101 0101011101 0100010101 1101011101 1111011101 01001011101 0111011101 0001010101 0101011101 1100010101 1101010101 1111001101 1011010101 0101010111 01110101001 0101010101 0101010101 1101110101 0111010101 1101010111 1101010101 0101011101 1101000101 0101001101 111111011 1101011101 01010010001 1101011101 0111010111 1111010101 1001010101 0100010101 1101010101 1101111101 011010101 1101000101 1100110101 1111011001 1011010101 01001000101 1101010001 10111110001 10001111111 1101010001 1011110101 1101110001 1101011111 1101110101 1101010011 0101111101 1111110111 0111110101 1101010101 1101111101 1101010101 1101010101 1111000101 1001010001 1111010001 1101110101 1101111101 1001000101 1100010101 0101011111 1101010111 0101010001 1110010111 1111110101 0110010101 1111111001 0101011111 1101011101 1101110011 1001010101 1100011101 1101010111 0101001111 0101010101 1111111110 1101111101 1010010101 0101110011 1001010101 1101010111 11110101010 0101110011 0111010001 1001000101 0101000101 1101011101 1111010111 1111110101 1111100111 1101110111 1011010101 1100110101 1101011101 1100010101 0111010001 1100011101 111110001 1101011101 0101010111 0100110011 0101110100 0001000101 0111111101 1101110001 0101010101 0101000101 0101011101 1101010101 0111001101 0111110101 0110010101 11010011101 0101010001 0101110101 11001010001 0101110001 1101010101 1101010101 0101001101 011110001 1001010010 0101101101 111101111 0111011110 1101011111 1101000111 1101110111 1111100101 01111101010 01010111010 1101110101 1100010101 1110010101 0111011111 0011010101 1111010001 010110101 011110101 1100111101 1111110101 1101010101 01010011101 11110011101 1101001101 1101010101 0111110101 10001010101 1101011001 0101010101 1101110001 0111010001 0111111111 1011111111 1110010101 1101010101 0101010101 0100010101 1101010101 01011101001 1111110101 0101101101 01001010101 0100010101 1110110101
- Amount of stanzas: 28
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 528
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 342
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; to, he, how, her, and, you, i, their, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, no are repeated.
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