This is an analysis of the poem A Description Of The King that begins with:
The king's beard on which sauces and ovations
fell until it became heavy as an axe...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXX bacc XXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111101010 10100110111 011000010010101 11010101101001 1111010110110 11010101000110 01100101100010 11101111101 00101001110100 11010110010 11111100101 011001001010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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