This is an analysis of the poem The Two Kings that begins with:

KING EOCHAID came at sundown to a wood
Westward of Tara. Hurrying to his queen... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcdXeaafXdaddgacdbadahiacdaacdhdjddebgkebajbflhjhhaXmkhhddlXdXddhhnhjbdjoXajeedpcaaXlXkhamidhXdbaejaelmjbkXbcihhbnibdamXdaXdhamabbadbhdcaaabhapbecdjbhhddnamdccdbjhXgXcdopXjokjjmjjacjdjhhaaXXdXaiqeaiohXeaqkXjXXoljXagahcbad
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 223,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101111001 10010100001 1110001101 10100101010 1111110111 0011011101 10110101001 0101010111 11011101001 1101011101 01010011101 1011111111 1001011101 1101010101 0101111101 011001101010 01010010101 1101111101 1101110101 01010010001 01110101110 1001010111 0100011001 1101010011 1100011111 1011001111 11011100010 0111010101 01110101001 1111111011 0100101100001 1111110101 11011101001 0101010111 11111111001 0101111101 110100111010 0101011101 1101010101 111110100010 1001011011 11000110001 11110111010 11010100101 0100001 1101 011010110101 0111010101 0101011001 0011110101 111110100010 1111110101 1101010111 0111011111 1110010101 0111011111 1001011001 1011011001 1101010011 0101000101 1110010011 1101010110 1010010101 0111011101 0101110011 11011011001 1101111101 1111010001 1101011111 11101011001 0101110001 1111110011 10101010100 1111010111 11010101010 11010111110 1111111111 1011110101 01001101 11 1111110101 11001111111 1111011111 11110101001 1101010101 1111100101 11111101010 11111110111 1101011001 1101010111 1101111111 10010111010 1111110101 1111011111 1001010111 11010100110 11011011010 10111100011 1011111011 1101110111 01101010111 1101000101 0101111111 11011111010 0100010111 1101000111 1111111100 1101111111 1111111101 1101110111 1100111111 1101011011 1110010101 11110101010 1100010011 1101010101 111101111011 1111111101 10101100101 1101010001 01111100110 100010101 11101010101 1101111111 111011011010 1111111111 11111110101 1111111101 01010101100 101000101 11000111010 1111111101 0101110111 1111110111 01110101110 10010010101 111101010101 01111110101 110111 11110 1111010101 11110100101 1111010101 1011110111 01110111111 1101011101 11011100101 0111011111 11 01010101 1101100101 11010010011 101011110001 11111000101 1111110101 100111010010 1101010111 10011101110 10011001010111 1101000101 11111101111 1111010111 1101010101 1111111011 11010011101 11011101111 110010101010 1111011110 1111011101 1001011001 0111110100 100100010111 1111111110 1111010101 1101011100 1101111101 10111100100 10110011001 11010110001 1001111100 1101111100 1110111111 1101000011 1001111100 1111011011 11110001001 1110011111 0111111101 110111110110 10111011111 11110101111 1111000110 11110101001 111110010111 10101110101 1111011111 1101010101 01010100011 111110011 1101101111 0101100100 1111110100 0101010100 0111100111 1101011111 10010110101 1110110001 1011101101 1001010011 110101 1101 1101010100 1101011111 1100011101 10110 110101 11010100010 1111011101 010100001001 1101110111 1011011101 1001110101 1111010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 9694
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1849
  • Amount of lines: 223
  • 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; and, it, nor, her, ', you, have, i, but, she, he, in, that, love, for are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, nor, her, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines happiness is repeated).

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