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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