This is an analysis of the poem Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 22 that begins with:

A king was subject to a terrible disease, the mention of which is not sanctioned by custom. The tribe of Yunani physicians agreed that this pain...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aa X aXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,1,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0110100100010100101101100101000100110110001011100100100101010010100100111101000010100110101000101001010100110010110001101101110001101010001001100010001010101101000110101001100101111100110111001011001010100001011011000100010110010101010101100010000110110010110110100101011010110001011010110010011011010111110100110110 0111010111 011011010011 01001101111100111110010110101011001011011100101010101100110110010011011 110010010010 1010010101001 10110010011011 001110101001011000
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 460
  • Average number of words per stanza: 83
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 231 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 41
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, of, and, king, his, for, that, by, he, father, i, qazi, issued, it, mother, this, blood are repeated.

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

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