This is an analysis of the poem Epiphanias that begins with:
THE three holy kings with their star's bright ray,--
They eat and they drink, but had rather not pay;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbaa ccde ffbb XXee ggaa ddhh XXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110101111 11111111011 11011101 1111111011 011011111 0101111101 100110101 011111010 011101101 1100110111 1010111011 111111110 011101101 110101101 010101111 11010101 01110111 111011010 1101101110 1111111010 0110111011 110101101 010100101 0110111101 11011101 010011101 1011100101 110111111 111111110 1101010110 11111101 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; they, eat, and, drink, three, i, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, i, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Epiphanias;
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