This is an analysis of the poem Kings Must Die that begins with:
Alphonso Rex who died in Rome
Was quite a fistful as a kid;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dbdbcX dedeff XaXaeeXababccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 11010101 11110001 11010001 01011111 11010101 11110101 01010001 010010111 11010101 11010111 11010100 11000101 11011101 10010101 01001101 010101100 10101010 11111000 11010101 11010101 01000101 01010111 10111111 11010011 11001101 1111001 100110101 11111101 01000101 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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