This is an analysis of the poem The King Of Brentford’s Testament that begins with:

The noble King of Brentford
Was old and very sick,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XababX cDedcX fgXghX gDidjd Xjkjgj lgegfg efjfkf mibibi eiciXi bbbbcb bXjkXX XkXkbX iXXXcX fieiiX XnXnkn maoaeX Xfdfkf idedfX bfhfkf heXece klcXkX kodXfX ekXkmk mifiei efXfcf blmlil ebebib Xbfbhb iicihi lklklk kXcXkf Xkbkak bieXkX lkXkhb Xihihi fXXneX lgf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,15,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101010 111101 1100010 010111 1100110 111110 1111010 010101 1111111 111101 1111110 110111 0111011 010001 0101110 010111 11111100 110101 11010101 010101 11001110 110111 11110111 110110 10101010 011101 11111111 111101 10010101 111101 11001101 010101 10011101 111101 1101010 0011011 11110101 110111 10101111 110001 1101010 101101 1101010 110101 1111010 010101 0101110 0110111 1111011 111011 1111010 110111 11010100 110001 1101010 110001 1111010 010001 1110010 111001 1101010 101101 1101111 110101 1101010 11010 1110010 010101 1111110 110101 1101110 1011001 11110101 110111 1101110 110111 1111110 1111100 0011010 111111 1101011 111111 1110011 0011100 1101110 010101 0101100 110101 11011100 0010100 1101010 110001 110101 110101 1101110 110100 1101010 110111 0111110 010101 1100110 110001 11110010 110101 11010101 110111 1111110 11101 01010100 110101 11010100 110101 1111110 111101 1111110 011111 1111110 111111 0100110 110100 1101010 110101 1111010 110111 1101110 1110111 1111010 110101 1111010 1101010 101010100 1101010 1101011 111101 0101010 010101 1101010 010101 1101110 1101001 1100110 110001 1101111 111101 101110011 110101 1111110 110111 1101010 011111 1101110 010111 1100010 110001 110001 110001 1101011 111111 1101011 010101 1100010 010111 11011010 010111 0100110 010111 11100100 001101 111111 110011 1101010 110111 0111110 011111 1101010 110101 1101010 110100 1111010 011101 11000100 110101 1111110 010111 11111100 111101 100111100 111100 1111110 110111 11111101 111111 1101110 111101 1111110 110101 1101110 010111 0111010 1101011 1101010 1101101 01000100 110101 1101100 010011 0101010 110111 11010100 011011 1100010 110100 1111010 110001 111100101 110111 10111100 010100 11000100 110101 11011101 110100 1101010 1111010 1101010 0111010 11110100 1111010 11011101 110101 11000101 110001 11010100 010001 11111101 110101 0100100 110101 10100110 111101 1111010100 1001010101 1101010101 1101110111 10010110001 0101110101 1011011100 1101010111 1101010101 10101010101 1001001111 1111110101 11000101010 1101010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 42
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 254
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their, they, ', and, his, in, or, my, to, he are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, the, and, as, on, you, or, a, too, my are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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