This is an analysis of the poem The King's Experiment that begins with:
It was a wet wan hour in spring,
And Nature met King Doom beside a lane, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb cXcX deXX XaXa bebX fXff gdgX hbhX ifif fffX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101110001 1101110101 0111110100 110101 101011111 111001110111 1111111001 1111010 100010001 11110010101 10101010100 1111010 11010110 11010100101 1101010111 1000101 1100100101 1110010101 1101011111 1100010 11011111 111000111000 10111000111 11100101 101111001 0101010101 1101010001 111101 101111100 0101010011 0111010100 110101 101011101 1011011101 1111110101 110101 101010111 1101111101 101100111001 1001110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; her, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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