This is an analysis of the poem Not As A King that begins with:
Not as a king unto us He came,
Not with the pomp of a titled name;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aaaa cccc ddee ffcc ffggXeeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110110111 100100101 110101101 110100111 1001001001 10111011 0010100101 0010100100 11101001011 10000100011 110100011 1100111111 110111101 1110101110 00101101111 11110110101 110110101 110100101 0010110011 1000100101 110111101 00100101111 100011101 101110111 101100101 10110011 110110101 1110110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; he, of, who are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words not, no, o are repeated.
The author used the same word not at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase not connects the lines.
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