This is an analysis of the poem The Curse Of Hungary that begins with:
King Saloman looked from his donjon bars,
Where the Danube clamors through sedge and sand, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cddc effe gaag XhhX faaf aiia hhhh jbbj khhkXfaaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1100100101 1010101111 11100100101 0011101011 1110011111 10011101110 10101011010 101100101 10010110101 10111001010 1100111110 0100100101 10101001001 1100101011 1010101101 111101111 10011011111 111111111 11111101011 10101111110 0111101010 1110110101 1011100101 101011001010 1101101101 110011101 1011110101 011110111 1011101101 110011101 110100101 1100100101 1101100101 011100101 01111001001 010100101 110011111 011100111 010100101 110100101 0101101010 11010001010 10111001010 1011101010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; and, their, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words may, and, the are 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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