This is an analysis of the poem God Bless Our Good And Gracious King that begins with:

God bless our good and gracious kind,
Whose promise none relies on,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101101 1101011 11010101 1100011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 4
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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