This is an analysis of the poem Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 16 that begins with:

One of my friends complained of the unpropitious times, telling me that he had a slender income, a large family, without strength to bear the load of...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X ab c defX X Xgfa X hh X Xcga h aX X edhe h iXeXXi X ebXX X jj X ajXg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,1,4,1,4,1,2,1,4,1,2,1,4,1,6,1,4,1,2,1,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011010010001101111010110110001101010100111010100100101001010111101110101110101000111 10011101111111 1001110101111111 11101010001000010011101011110101011011010000100001010101011101 10011000101010 10100100 0110010101 01000111001000 110111111101110010101111100110100011101010100111111101010011111101101100100110110101010100101110011110100110001001000100100101011100 1110010010 0100111110 1001011010011 110101010001 1011011101100100011110110111101010011001011010100 10001001001 111111011 10111010111010110010001001001010100010101010001001111011010010010 010100101001100 11010011101011000011 011110101011 1001100110011 11110011010111111101100110111010010111111011010001000111011010110010110101010101001011000100100001111010111110100111010111101010101001101010110101001101110010111010001001001011100001001011010101101000101011011110101001101010011001011101000100101010101000101111 100111101 1011001000010100 11101110110101110100111010010001010100010100010001001111111001001110110001110 0111011110100100 101001101101010 101010111011 1100001110100 1011111101101011000101101000101001101100110100101010111110100011001111100100101000100101011110100010100010010001010111010001010010100001000101000011101101000101011 111010010011110101 010010100100 1111100100 010110011010 110110100101110 11101001010011 1111100100100011010010111011111010011010101001000010011010100111000100101101101011010111011110100100110101010100111110011111010101011110000 101101000100100 1101111101 101011001 101001111010 10111101101010010101010010010100110110101101110101010010000101101110100101111101001001011010001100111110101011000100 0101011011001 101111110101 11001000101001011110101111010110101100100100110 101111111101 0001010101010011 010111101001 11110000100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 303
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 49
  • Average number of symbols per line: 137 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 24
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, he, and, one, his, no, to, that, i, in, thou, if, who, said, friend, my, on, me, not are repeated.

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

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

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