This is an analysis of the poem The King Of England that begins with:

In that eclipse of noon when joy was hushed
Like the bird's song beneath unnatural night,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaXbcXbc dededaddad ececaddadd fgfghichic
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101011111 10110101001 1101100101 0101000101 11011111110 1111011101 0101010001 110101 1101010111 1100111101 0111100101 01010101001 1111010101 0101010101 0111010101 0101110101 1101010101 100101 01000100101 100111100101 1001010101 1011011001 11010101001 1111111101 1011010111 0101110111 11010100111 011001 1101011101 1111110101 1101010111 1011110101 1101111111 1101010101 1111011101 1110111101 1101111111 011101 1101010111 1101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 420
  • Average number of words per stanza: 78
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, so, thy are repeated.

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