This is an analysis of the poem The Princess: A Medley: Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal that begins with:
Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;
Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacacdcdc ebec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1101010101 1101000101 11011001001 01011010101 1101111101 1101110101 1101110001 1111110101 11010100111 0101011101 1101010101 1100010001 1110110111 0011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 321
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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