This is an analysis of the poem If I Were King that begins with:
If I were king, my pipe should be premier.
The skies of time and chance are seldom clear, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabab abaCXababaC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 0101111001 0101111101 11010101110 0101110101 11111111010 1101110001 10011101110 1111110101 0101 1101111101 01011101010 0111010111 01010001010 11011100101 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; should is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word king at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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