This is an analysis of the poem Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 20 that begins with:
I heard that an oppressor ruined the habitations of the subjects to fill the treasury of the sultan, unmindful of the maxim of philosophers, who have...
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- Rhyme scheme: X ab c acde d cbde e bXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,1,4,1,4,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111101010010000001010100001010000100010011110011011010100010101011101001100100010 101001101 1011100101 010110000101010010110011001111110101010101011 0110110010 01001011110010 101101101 101000101011 10110101100100010011110111110111110010 11101010100010 011100110001 0110010011010 100010111010 1000111111 101011010101110 0010010010010010 01110101101 100101010100100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 79 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, that, who, to, thou are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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