This is an analysis of the poem Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 04 that begins with:

A band of Arab brigands having taken up their position on the top of
a mountain and closed the passage of caravans, the inhabitants of...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaabcded fdghdf fbijgkkf hX lemkijinlcfi ij kkkk ncXX XkjkfoffkX kfkd kXjX XhoX lgckkkii nX iiimji ddXbhdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,8,2,12,2,4,4,10,4,4,4,8,2,6,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01010101010110101010 010110100101001000 010001111001010 0101010101001110100 1101000101101011 111010010110101010 011010001000101001000 10010001001001001 01111101 101001101001 10110011011 1110100010 0100101010010 110010100111100 001010110111101101 10101001010010001110 11011011000100111 10100100010101100 1000100010010010 1010011001001011 10111010110010101 110101001101 0100110010 1010001001 01001100111010100 10010001011000100 010011101000011 1000010100101101 11001010101100111 1001100101010100 111101010100101 11111110101001001 11110101001111100 01000110011101001111 100100110010001 10 1101001011010000 0101010100110110010 10100001010111101 101100111110100100 101011001010101101 10101011011 0011101001 101000100111 0100100110 011111100011 0101110001001010 10010001111111100 01010101001101100 10001101111011001 1111110000100010110 110101001001010011010 10100101011001111 1101001011000100010 1100100101101010110 10110101010100 0101010101010 010100101 0100010001111 01010001010101 1010111111001 100110110100001110 010010100111110 0111110101 1011111001010 110010010100110 11110010001001 010111001010001 01010110110000100 1011100101111111 0111001001011100111 10101000100110101010 10001000101010010 01111001010111010 10010000100111111 1 110110001 111111001 1010101010100001001 110101011010100010 01110100011010111 0100001000110001011 1010010101000110 100010010111 11011010010110 111011101111011010 0100010001101011 011001001011011 0110101100 1101111101 01001010011010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 339
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 91
  • Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, in, their, them, and, became, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the, yet are repeated.

    The author used the same words a, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines of is 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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