This is an analysis of the poem Good King Wenceslas that begins with:
Good King Wenceslas looked out
On the feast of Stephen... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacac dedXfbfX bgbXagag hghXiXiX jXjjkeke
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110011 101010 1011101 111110 1010111 101110 1011101 101010 1011111 011010 1010101 111010 1110011 101010 1010101 111010 1111111 111110 1110111 111110 1111111 111010 1011101 101010 1010101 101110 1111111 111110 1111101 110010 1110101 111110 0010111 101110 1100101 101110 1110101 111010 1110101 110110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me is repeated.
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