This is an analysis of The Ruby-Crowned Kinglet by Henry Van Dyke.
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Where's your kingdom, little king?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abccbaab ddeeddccaaeeddddeebBXbeebffb gghhgXddggeecccciiaaddggddeebBXbggbffbXccggggaabb
- Stanza lengths: 8,28,49,
- Metre: 1 1110101 1011111 1110111 10010101 1010101 1011101 101 1010101 1010101 1010101 1010001 1011101 1011101 1011111 1110111 1010101 1010101 1011111 1110011 1010101 1010101 1010101 11101001 1111101 1111111 1010111 1010101 1 1011101 0110101 0010111 1110111 100100010 10111010 111 10101010 11101010 1010001 10100101 1010101 1110110 1010101 1010101 1000101 1011101 1011111 1011001 1110101 1010101 1010101 1011001 1010111 1011101 10100101 1010101 10111001 10101011 1010101 10111001 1010101 1110101 1111101 1010011 1111111 1010101 1 1010101 1011101 1110101 1001001101 01101110 11100010 101 1011101 1010111 1111101 1010011 1010111 1110111 1011111 1110111 1011111 1010101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 84
Repeated words/phrases
your, i, there, and
Anaphora
where, there