This is an analysis of the poem A Manager's Perplexities that begins with:
Were I a king in very truth,
And had a son - a guileless youth -... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcccbdedeffcc cXcgXgcghghhiibb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 11010101 0100010 01110111 11000101 11010101 0100010 01010111 0101110 0111100001 1100110 101111001001 11001011001 11001001011 11001001001 10110101 1110101110 1101011 10111101 1001010010 11110101 01101101 11110101 1101010 11110101 1101010 1101110 101111001001 01011001001 11011001001 110110010010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 566
- Average number of words per stanza: 102
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines reasons is repeated).
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