This is an analysis of the poem Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 03 that begins with:

I have heard that a royal prince of short stature and mean presence,
whose brothers were tall and good-looking, once saw his father...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacdeX af bgXX eh hhcb gbh ghXX igh gXaX eXajffjkbidfXX gh ikihfX hXab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,2,4,2,4,3,4,3,4,14,2,6,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111010101101110 11001101011010 10110010101111010 110100101011110010 0100100101011001100 101100101001010101 11100010 0101011011001 0010100100110 111110110 1110011 101101101 0011110101010 01011010010001 010010101101 1011101 01110101 11110010010 100010101010 1111010100111010100 10011101100010010110 01110010110101011 111111111101010 11111010111 10111011 0101111010010 101001111010100 100110010010100010110 10011 1101110010100 110100100000110 010101001 10101010101 0001010100100010011 0110100101110101 1011011111011010 01011010010010111 1001000111111101001 010100110111001 11001110010001011 0101001110101001 100111000110011010 000101011010100010 1101000100001010 1010011110010011 01011111011111 10 11110011011 1000101101001 010011001001000 1010101000101010100 01001101010101110 0101110100110101 1110011100110111 10101110 10101110101 101010101100 0010001001010 111001110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 254
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 59
  • Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, his, that are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 03;
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  • history of its creation;
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