This is an analysis of the poem Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 17 that begins with:

Several men were in my company whose external appearance displayed the adornment of piety. A great man who had conceived a very good opinion of these...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbcc a XX X de a XeaX a dXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,2,1,2,1,4,1,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 100100110010100100100100100011110101000100110101001010110100111010100010010000101111000110100110100100111010010101110110110110101111101010101 01010110110 0100010111010 101101101010 010110010100010 1111110101010001110101011111001001010001101111101010111 1001110101 010010100 111001011011110 011011111 1100111101 0111011101100100010100100100101011111 101111111100 01010100001 011100001100010 110011100101010 010010101110001011000100101100100101011101101001000101111011 10010101010010101 0101010001010 111001000001111 0111111010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 98 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 17
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, had, and, me, i, my are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 17;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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