This is an analysis of the poem The King And The Sea that begins with:
After His Realms and States were moved
To bare their hearts to the King they loved, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb bbdeed ccdeed dddffd gghaah iXhaahaadaad aadX iibccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,12,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10011101 011100111 100010101010 01110101 011100101 111111011010 11110111 101010111 00101101010101 011101101 11010101 11101111011 11110111 10110111 00110101111 1101010101 1110101101 10110101011 11110111 0110110101 0100111010011 010101111 1010101101 010010101111 1101001001 11011111 10110111110 11111001111 1011111101 10111101010 1101101001 11011100 00111111101010 111111001 10100110101 10010011010 111100101 1101100101 01011110111 110101101 101010011 11110100011 100111001 1010111 111100111011 1110111101111 100100101 11110101 10110101010 011100101 1111000101 11111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, or, him, his, had are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and are repeated.
The author used the same words 'there, 'i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words him, ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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