This is an analysis of the poem Yet If His Majesty Our Sovereign Lord that begins with:

Yet if his majesty our sovereign lord
Should of his own accord... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXaaccbbbbaaddXXeeffbbgggghh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001001101 100101 100101 111001101010 1111011101 11011011101 1111010001 110101 110101 1101011111 11001110111 1011011101 1001010101 011001 010001 1101010101 0101010101 111101000100 1001010111 110101 110101 0111001101 1101101111 1101011111 11010001010 1111110 110011 1101010001 11011111010 11111110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1189
  • Average number of words per stanza: 213
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; to is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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