This is an analysis of the poem The Fable Of Midas that begins with:
Midas, we are in story told,
Turn'd every thing he touch'd to gold:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccddeeaaffaaaaeeggaaaahhaaeeeeddeeiieeggaajjeebbeeddkkeeeellmmeeiiaallXennee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 82,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110101 110011101 11010101 10110101 010101010 110101010 11111111 10010101 01011111 11010101 010101010 110101110 11011111 10010101 1001100101 11010111 11010101 01010011 11111101 11010011 11010101 11011111 01110101 11010111 11110101 11110001 101100101 11011101 01010101 11010101 01010111 11110111 11010001 11011001 01110111 01011101 110111010 010101010 10010111 11011101 010101010 010101010 01010101 11000101 11110011 11011111 11010101 11010101 11000101 11010001 110010101 01110001 11111101 11011101 11010101 10010111 01011101 11011101 11010001 100111001 01010101 1101111 110010101 11000101 11010111 11011011 111000101 11010111 11010101 01010101 110101010 110101010 11011101 010101001 01011101 11010101 010100100 01010011 111110010 101101110 11010101 0111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2886
- Average number of words per stanza: 525
- Amount of lines: 82
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and, by are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, by are repeated.
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