This is an analysis of the poem Song—carle, An' The King Come that begins with:
Chorus.—Carle, an the King come,
Carle, an the King come,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAXA bbXAC dddAC AAXAc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101011 101011 1111101 101011 11100101 11101101 110011101 101011 1010111 1111101 11011101 11110101 101011 1010111 11011 11011 1011101 11011 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; carle, king, come are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words carle, coggie are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines come is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word c at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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