This is an analysis of the poem King And No King that begins with:

WOULD it were anything but merely voice!'
The No King cried who after that was King,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaaXbccbdeedcffc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 10010111010 0111110111 0111110101 1100010111 11011011101 1111111101 11110011111 01101111101 1001011111 0101010101 11111111111 1001010101 11100111111 0101001101 00100100101 1101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 692
  • Average number of words per stanza: 132
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; that is repeated.

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

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