This is an analysis of the poem The Princess: A Medley: As Thro' The Land that begins with:
As thro' the land at eve we went,
And pluck'd the ripen'd ears,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccbaXdbXbddb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11011111 110101 1111111 11111111 110101 11010101 110110 11110111 110101 11111101 110100 1010101 11010101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 491
- Average number of words per stanza: 86
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines grave is repeated).
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