This is an analysis of the poem Lear that begins with:
A poor old king, with sorrow for my crown,
Throned upon straw, and mantled with the wind— ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaXcXdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0111010111 10011110001 1101111111 1111011101 1101010111 0100110111 1110011111 01011111101 1111010110 1111011101 0101011111 11111100101 10011011111 1011110100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 613
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; my is repeated.
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