This is an analysis of the poem Christmas At The Round Table that begins with:
The great King Arthur made a royal feast,
And held his Royal Christmas at Carlisle,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abababbb ccccccXc dededeee fcfXfcXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0111010101 1101010111 1101010111 01001000101 1101011111 0100110101 01011100010 01010111010 0101111101 1100110011 0111010001 01011011001 11100010001 1101010101 11110100111 1101110111 10010100010 10110101101 10110111110 1101010101 11011101110 11000110101 0111110011 1101110011 11010101010 11010011010 01010111110 10110011100 01010011010 10110001110 11010100110 10110111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 358
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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, by, all, sorts, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, all 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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