This is an analysis of the poem Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 07 that begins with:

A padshah was in the same boat with a Persian slave who had never
before been at sea and experienced the inconvenience of a vessel. He...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcbXaXdbdeXXeX ebXX cX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,4,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010011001011110 01011101000101000101 010110100100111110 10111011110101011 01011010001111000 00100111101011101 01001100011000100 10010010001011110 100100111110100 10010111010111 11001010110001100 1111110110001011 100010001101110001000 10111101000111001 1101010100010000010010 10101 11111011011 101111011001 00100101101011 10100010010100101 100100011110001 11110101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 454
  • Average number of words per stanza: 86
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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