This is an analysis of the poem A King In Exile that begins with:

O THE Queen may keep her golden
Crown and sceptre of command!... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXdefe dgfg caXa chXh iaca XbiX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111010 1110001 11101110 0010100 10001010 1010101 11101010 1111101 10100110 1010111 10110110 1111101 11101010 1010111 11101010 1010101 11101010 0010111 00110111 1010111 110111001 1110101 11101110 1011101 11101011 0101001 11111011 1110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, they 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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