This is an analysis of the poem Do Kings Put Faith In Fortressed Walls, And Bar that begins with:
Do kings put faith in fortressed walls, and bar
Their cities' gates, as strong to keep out war?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabbXXaccX dXdefefcghcghg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110100111 1101110111 0100010101 1101101101 100110110011 010001010 0100010100 1111011101 0100011101 11010101001 1111100 1111010111 1101110101 0111011101 1101110100 0101010101 1111010100 0111001101 110101 1111111111 111101 1001110101 1111 1111010101 1011110111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 507
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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