This is an analysis of the poem The Princess: A Medley: Our Enemies Have Fall'N that begins with:
Our enemies have fall'n, have fall'n: the seed,
The little seed they laugh'd at in the dark,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacDaaXe DXfXc bgceaXgfadea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,5,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1100111101 0101111001 11011011101 01011111001 0101110001 1100111111 0101010111 0101111101 1100011001 1111011101 1100111111 0100110101 1101010101 1101111111 1111010101 1100111111 0111110111 1111010001 01001110011 1101000101 1100111011 0101000101 01010101011 0100010101 0111010101 1101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 318
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, fall'n, have, and, for, their, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word our at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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