This is an analysis of the poem King Stephen that begins with:

A FRAGMENT OF A TRAGEDY
ACT I.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdecbfbdgfgddeafXhdaidXjXeifkaid jldmfedcXneX jdhfbfdjjdeajcogoddgkfjiXigigjiXeegggnekiimidmecdlneog imikjXflgpmfmd jdXdjjjcicibjibqgieXXkjlgbpmrbXojjpXikekXecXfeXbjofdXjng XgXnrljiekmhjeecqdedorjbpegrcfrdjieiXfgegenaXXXrggkcgpapnda gddeXdrjd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,12,54,14,56,59,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01000100 11 111010 100101101110 100111010111 1101010101 1011010111 1011001101 1011010101 1101010101 0101011111 1111011111 1101100111 11110100101 11010011001 1000111 110100 1011010111 1011001011001 01011 1010111 1101010100 1101011101 1111100111 111110 101101101010 10010 1001010111 10 10111101001 01001011101 1100010100 0111101101 1101000111 1111 10111111 1111011001 1101110111 1101010101 10110101001 1101010011 00010111011 1001110010 1101010101 1101010111 010110100 110101001 1010010010101110 10111111101 11010010001 1011010101 0011100101 00101001100 11010101110 1 11111100110 101111011001 10110100 11011 10101101 11001 10100101 101001 110111101 0101011101 10010100001 0111011101 0111010111 1101010001 111011010010 1101010101 1110110011 11010 1011101 1100010 1010101 00110010111 110001010 110100100101 1111010001 1001010111 0101001101 11001111101 0111010 10101 10111 10101010110 10 1011111100001 1010111111011 10110010101 1100000101 100101011111 1011111000101 1111011101 1111010101 01010110101 1101000101 11001010111 0101010101 01001010111 1101010111 100111110101 1011101010111 1001111101 1101011101 1010011111 0101100011 1110111101 101110011111 0101010011 01001000101 1100010101 1010110 1101010101001 100101110111 1010010100 1101000101 1111001111 1101011101 0101010101 01110100101 01010101001 1111110111 10110110001 1111110101 0101000101 11 1001111 0101101010101 1111011111 110111110 1101000101 101001101111 011011011101 10101 0111010101 101101010101 1111011101 0101011101 1001101101 01010101001 10010 0111101 101111110101 1101010101 1101110101 011010101 0101011101 1011001001 001000101 0111 11011100 1011 11110101101 1011011101 1111101111 110 0100110101 01110111 10110 01111100011001 101111010101 1101011001 1101010101 0101010101 01010100101 1101011101 00110111101 10100101011 110101011001010 10101101010 110111001110 1101111011 010110110010 1101011101 110 1010101110 0101110100 101001111111 1111011101 1111010101 0101011101 1101011111 0011011100 1101110100 0111110111 1000111101 1111001 101011 1110101 111010 1111011111 1111011101 0101110101 0101010001 10011011110110 1010 10101001111 11010011111 0100101100 1110110101 1101110001 11001010111 101 101111101 1101010110 1101101011 0101110101 0111111101 01010100010 111111100111 100101110101 1101000100 0111010110 1110 101111000 01110111010 010011000011 10010100100 1101010001 1101001001 10011111011 10101 10110100 1011011101 11010011111 11000101010 11010001010 0101000101 0111011101 01110011010 1101011111 010101010 0101010001 10101010 10011 1101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1366
  • Average number of words per stanza: 246
  • Amount of lines: 238
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; captain, her, from, stephen, our, then, him, and, to, of, i, that, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words baldwin, of are repeated.

    The author used the same word scene at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines stephen, sword are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases baldwin, stephen connect the lines.

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