This is an analysis of the poem The Tombs Of The Kings that begins with:

Where the mummied Kings of Egypt, wrapped in linen fold on fold,
Couched for ages in their coffins, crowned with crowns of dusky gold, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd aa cX dd ee ff dd gg aX XX bb hh iX jj ff hh cc ff ff eX hh aa hh Xk ee ff jX eX di ff dd ee gg cc kk ll aa ff jj eX gg eeXdi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101010101010111 111001101010101 1000100101000101 101110100110101 100110101010111 101010101010001 100101001000111 101010101010111 111010101010111 101001000010101 1011101011100111 100101110001100100 110010100010111 111010101010101 111010101010101 10100110010001 1011010101010011 101010111010101 1011111111010111 10111010100011 1011011101101111 111110101010101 1001010101111111 1110110010001010 111010101110111 1110111010010101 111010100111101 101011101010001 101011101010111 111110110010101 100110100010100 101011100011000 101010101111111 00101010010001 111000101110111 0010001010101001 111000101110111 1010101000010101 101011101010111 101010100110101 101010101010101 10100001010110001 101100101110101 101010101011101 101110111010101 101010101010010 101010011000101 111011101011101 101010100010101 1111101010001 101011001110101 1010101010101101 111010101000101 111111100110001 11011000010001 111010101110101 1001010101010101 1110100101011101 101010100010101 1010010101111100 1010101010010101 1011001100011000 101010101010111 111110101000100 101110100011101 110101010010101 1111010100110111 001010101010111 111010101011101 1010111101001100 111010101000101 10101011101001 1010010101010101 10101000010101 101010101000101 101010000010101 111111001011101 101010101010001 111010101010111 1101001101010101 101110101010111 1010001100010101 111001101110101 111001101111111 111010100110111 10101010011001 100110100010101 101100111000101 101110100010111 1010010101111101 101110101111101 010110101010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 46
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 92
  • Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, of, and, we, have, let, us, where, down, on, they are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, let, and, where are repeated.

    The author used the same words we, down, where, and, though at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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