This is an analysis of the poem The King Of Brentford that begins with:
There was a king in Brentford,—of whom no legends tell,
But who, without his glory,—could eat and sleep right well.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd Xbbb ddee dddd ffXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010011101 1101010111111 0101010010101 1101010110101 1001110111111 1101010011101 0101010110110 1101011110001 1011010010111 0111011011101 1101110111111 11010010011101 1101011010111 0100111010001 1101010110101 1100010110101 1111010110101 1101010010111 100011110101 1111110110011 0101010111101 0101010011111 1101010010101 1101010110110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, his, he, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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