This is an analysis of the poem Guilielmus Rex that begins with:
The folk who lived in Shakespeare's day
And saw that gentle figure pass ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abac dede dbdbXcccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110111 11110101 11010101 11011111 010101001 01010111 10111111 11010101 01010111 01011101 11111111 11110111 111010101 01011111 110010101 101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or is 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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