This is an analysis of the poem Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 18 that begins with:

A royal prince, having inherited abundant treasures from his father, opened the hand of liberality and satisfied his impulse of generosity by...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XbXa X Xbcc XXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,4,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 010110010001010001010010101001101001010100110001110001010101010 0101010001110 101100011100 01100001010100 01101101001 1001000110000101101001111010010100110100010101010100101001010111000010011110010101010000 01100001000101 11100010101 11011010101010 111001011001010 010110101111111001111100100010001100110110100 101011010101010011101101001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 106 (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, it, to, and, not are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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