This is an analysis of the poem Words that begins with:
Is it not brave to be a king, Techelles,--
Usumcasane and Theridamas, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX bcbccdddd abXbbbebe fdXddghgh bibiicece feXeehjhj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 00110001100 100011000 0011010001 110101010011 10111101001 0111011101 1011010101 11011111101 1101010101 1101110001 1111010101 10011100011 010110001 111111010001 0111000111 0101011100 1101011101 1101010101 0011010101 11011101001 1011010101 1011010111 110010100101 01010010101 10010101010 0111000101 1111111001 0101111101 1101011101 1111110111 0101011001 11111100101 0101111111 1111110101 11110010101 1111010111 1101010111 1001110111 1100010111 100111111 11111110101 0111011101 111001100100 110111100101 1101010111 1101011111 01010011101 1101011111 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 378
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, with, way, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word words is repeated.
The author used the same word bring at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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