This is an analysis of the poem Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 27 that begins with:

A man had attained great excellence in the art of wrestling, who knew three hundred and sixty exquisite tricks and daily exhibited something new. He...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a aXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: cinquain
  • Metre: 011011100001010011110110100111001001011101100010101001001011111011011010001011011101101110111111100010111111101001010011001000110101001101011001011101110111100011111001001010001001101010010010010101001110000100110100111111011000101111010010010011010111110101000010110011110100111011010001100101011001001110101111111011010010110010100101000100010110011011100100100010101101101111101101111010100101001110101110111101010100101101010111010011111111111011101011111101111110111101010011111010 100100011101001 11111000011 111110001 011110010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1069
  • Average number of words per stanza: 195
  • Amount of lines: 5
  • Average number of symbols per line: 428 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 78
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, he, of, had, his, with, from, him, not, one, in, for, strength, my, who, youth, me, but, which, that, master, said are repeated.

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

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