This is an analysis of the poem Cavalier Tunes: Give A Rouse that begins with:
King Charles, and who'll do him right now?
King Charles, and who's ripe for fight now? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAAB cccccAAABcdcdcAAAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,18,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111111 110111111 101101011 110 11101111 11101111 11101111 11101111 10 110111111 110111111 101101011 110 01111111 101111011 11011111 1111011 10 110111111 110111111 101101011 110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 422
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; king, now, charles, who, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words king, who are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines now is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word charles at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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