This is an analysis of the poem The Princess: A Medley: Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead that begins with:

Home they brought her warrior dead:
She nor swoon'd nor utter'd cry:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXcacadede fbfX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101001 1111101 1010101 11111010 1111111 1110001 1011101 1110111 1010001 10001001 1011001 1110111 1010100 1010101 11010101 101111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 315
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; she is repeated.

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