This is an analysis of the poem Any Prince To Any Princess that begins with:

August is coming
and the goose, I'm afraid, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdefagcb hgfdijfXX kXafkkclg lehb gdjcjkfhidmgdb fbfjambd XXj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,9,9,4,14,8,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010 101001 0101 110 11011111 1110101101 0111010 1010 111011 10 11010101 11011010101 100100101 01110110 1101110110110100 1010 01110101010 10110000 10 11101101010100 010 011101010 001001010001 010110011001010 1111110101 101001001101001 10110101 10111010 01000101010101 101011111011 0100010 010 111101001010 1010011 11010110 111111 101000101010 1101010101 010101 00110111 0010000 1010 100100101001 1010010100 001111110 01 10 0111 1111010 11100110 01010110101 11111101 101001 11101 1111 1010
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 220
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 57
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word your is repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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