This is an analysis of the poem A Servant When He Reigneth that begins with:

Three things make earth unquiet
And four she cannot brook... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabacdXdefdXggXg dhfhiddd ibibcXXe fgXgbjXj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110 111101 01010100 110001 1101010 011101 10101110 110101 1101010 111101 01110101 010110 11001010 110111 10101110 0010001 0111010 011101 0111010 011101 1111110 010101 1111010 010111 0111010 010101 1101010 010101 1101010 0010101 0101110 1011111 0111010 010101 0101010 110101 0101011 010111 10101110 011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; his, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word his is repeated.

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