This is an analysis of the poem Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 14 that begins with:

One of the ancient kings neglected the government of his realm and kept the army in distress. Accordingly the whole of it ran away when a powerful...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XabX X bXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 100101010010000111010001010001001011010010001 010101010001 10101011001 1100010101001 1111101010100 111101001011110100011001101101101001001100000101110100111010101010101001110001101001011010110111011111111011101110101101000111010111110 11001011111 01100110111 1010001100101100100 10100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 114 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 19
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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  • summary of Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 14;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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