This is an analysis of the poem The Reign Of Gold that begins with:
IT sounded in castle and palace,
It sounded in cottage and shed,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBcBDBEdb fgfgcbcb dhdhibjb Xcjcfbfb diXjibib kbkbibib gcgcXbfb aBcBDBEdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,8,8,8,8,8,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 010010110 01001011 011010110 11001101 1010011010 01111011 1110100 10 01101011 100010010 11001001 0010010010 01001001 110110010 01011101 010110010 11001011 010010010 01011011 1010011010 11011011 010010010 01001011 110110101 11101011 010110100 01101111 010111011 01001001 010110010 11101011 010110010 01001011 010010100 110110110 010110100 11101011 110010010 01001011 010011010 11001011 010111010 01001011 010010010 11001001 111010010 11001001 110110010 11001011 110011010 011001001 111011010 11001001 11001101 01101001 011010010 01101011 010010110 01001011 011010110 11001101 1010011010 01111011 1110100 10 11101011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 301
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; it, and, of, by, see are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, the, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word gold at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Reign Of Gold;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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