This is an analysis of the poem The King’s Evil that begins with:
They brought them up from their huts in the fens,
The woeful sufferers gaunt and grim; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaaXac dbdbefef gbgbchch hihihihi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011001 010100111 110010101 0011100111 1011101101 00101101001 1010110101 0111111101 1110101101 010100101 011010101 1010110001 1001111101 1010100111 0100111101 1010100101 010110101 0111101001 010110101 01010011 011100101 11001101001 1010100111 110011111 101101001101 11101101001 1110111111 1010110101101 1110110101 1011111101 0101110111 101001001101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 356
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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 words a, the are repeated.
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