This is an analysis of the poem Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 09 that begins with:

An Arab king was sick in his state of decrepitude so that all
hopes of life were cut off. A trooper entered the gate with the good...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabcbXX dadceaaeffda
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011100101000111 1010110101001000 1101011010100100 110100101011011010 00101001001000110 111011100111111100 10010010 1111010101 11000100110001 1100101101101 10111111001 010111010010 1111111001 110111011 1110110 1010101011011 101111111 111010100 111100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 515
  • Average number of words per stanza: 94
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 54 (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; that, of, my are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).

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  • summary of Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 09;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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