This is an analysis of The Song Of The Wheels by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
King Dives he was walking in his garden all alone,
Where his flowers are made of iron and his trees are made of…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaXcdceffee Ccaaaa Xgbgaccehheae Cceecc eeijicchckccaXa CciieX akadeececefkX ccaaXjc
- Stanza lengths: 12,6,13,6,15,6,13,7,
- Metre: 1111100010101 101011010101110 1 1011101010101 11 10101110111010 1 1101010111011 1 01010101010101 111111101011101 11011101010101 101011010101 111011010101 101011111101 101111010101 101110110101 111011011101 11111110101011 1 11101010101110 1 1110111011101 11 101110101101 1110101111111 001 111011110010001 111010101011101 11101101110101 01 101011010101 10011110111 101010110111 101010110101 101110110111 101011010101 1100101110111 101010101010101 01010101010101 010111111110 1 10101111111 1001101110111 100110010101110 1 1011111011101 01 11101110101110 1 1111111001101 11 101011010101 111010110101 111111010101 111111011101 101110010101 10111011111 1111100010001 1101110111010 1 10101010101010 1 111010101010101 100010100010101 11101110111 0001 1110111011111 11 0101010111010 1 101011010101 101010111101 10101010101 101110110101 001111011111 111111111111 001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 78
Repeated words/phrases
his, and, of, has, wheels, master, not, only, our, he, bind, them, in
Anaphora
and, steel, not, only, are
Anadiplosis
not
