This is an analysis of the poem Histories that begins with:
I weary of the histories of men-
The garnered store of books in grim array;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eaea fgfg haha XiXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1100010001 0101010101 1101010111 1001010101 1100010111 0101110101 1100010101 01010010111 11110111001 11011100100 1011010101 0101111101 1101001101 1111110111 11010100101 01011110011 1100011111 1101111111 1111000101 1111011101 1001010101 1001000101 0100011101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; of, kings, 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 i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Histories;
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- idea of the verse;
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