This is an analysis of the poem The King Of Sweden that begins with:

THE Voice of song from distant lands shall call
To that great King; shall hail the crowned Youth... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaaccXdXdeed
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 0101010111 011111011 1101001101 1101011101 1101001111 0111110101 1101101001 1101110110 111100100111 01110001100 1101011110 0101110011 11010011001 0101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 606
  • Average number of words per stanza: 111
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • 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.

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