This is an analysis of the poem The Princess (Part 1) that begins with:

A prince I was, blue-eyed, and fair in face,
Of temper amorous, as the first of May, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcd aefghchaaebdaihXjekalafjaehXbminXenh fjoifagihf fjjaefb aheemXhfhd gjlchifegadfXXidneXmfX ehefjnXnaaX neXfaejXXpajl afjdaifijaqfedraqhloefeiesjjplajhsgdqdhjkbfafkaXltjaffeXhsjejl ffjhfoejcoosdjjejjaefeedoXjXjj faXrjjefajlthjcd hnefXhfseafeXehe bhXfcl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,36,10,7,10,22,11,13,62,30,16,16,12,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0111111101 01010010101 0101010101 1111010101 1111010011 11001011101 0111111101 1011011111 0110010111 1101011101 1111010101 1101010111 1111010001 11111101011 10100010111 1111111101 1101010101 1111011001 1111010111 11011101000 11010010101 1101111101 1101111110 1101011100 1101010101 11110010001 1101010101 0110101111 1111010001 110 10101110 11110111100 01010010101 1101000101 1101110101 1100010001 100101010 1111010111 1111110101 1111110111 1101111111 1101010001 1101010111 0010111001 11000110111 0111011101 1111010111 1111001101 1101010101 0101010111 1100010111 01010100111 0101000101 01011100111 0101011101 1111111111 01010110111 1111111101 1111010101 0101110101 1011010111 0100011111 0101110111 1111010101 1100011111 0111011101 0100010001 1111110111 0100111101 0001010001 11111111100 1101111111 10011010111 110101011001 1101010101 1101010111 1100010001 1101010111 0100110011 1001010101 1101011011 1101011101 0110111111 0111011001 1111110001 11110101011 1011111101 0101010101 0101010101 1101011111 1011110101 1011110101 10110110101 00110101001 10110100101 11011111000 0101110101 1101010101 0011010101 1001010111 1101010011 0101011101 010101001000 1101011101 0111010111 0101110101 11110001001 1101011111 1101001111 001001111111 1111010100 11010101010 100010010101 0111011101 11011101001 1101010101 0101110101 1101111101 1101110111 111001111011 1001011101 1101010101 0111100101 11010101010 1101011101 1111010111 0111110101 1101010101 1101001101 0101010100 0100110001 1110001101 1101110101 1010110101 0101011101 1101111011 1101110101 0101110111 1101111100 1110110101 0101000111 110101001 0111010101 1111111111 11011101010 1101111101 0101010111 1111001111 11011011011 1101110100 1101011111 1111001111 11001010101 01011101010 1101010111 10110001101 0101111111 1101011111 01111111000 1101011111 1111010 101 1111011101 01001110100 1101011111 11011100111 1101011111 10011100111 0111010101 1101010101 1001010101 11010000100 1101110111 0101100101 1101110001 1001110001 1111010101 1000110111 1101011101 0101010111 11011011101 0111111101 0100010101 1111110101 1111111101 1111110101 1111111111 111100001101 1111010101 01010100001 01110111001 11011010101 1101 111101 0111111101 01001110101 1111011101 0111011101 1111010111 1101010101 0100010101 0111110101 1101110101 0101010101 1101010100 1101010111 1111110101 01010101101 1101011111 1001011101 0111010101 1101010101 1101110111 0101110111 1111110111 01111101010 1101010111 01010111001 0100010101 11011100100 1001110001 1101010101 111110011011 0101010100 0111010011 01110010101 1101011111 1101010111 1101100111 0101010101 0100110110 11010101011 1101011100 11001010111 1111111111 0101110101 1101010101 11000101001 1101010011 1101010 011 0111010101 11001100101 1101010001 1101000101 1101110111 01010100111 0111010111 1111111011 11011111 110101 1111111 11111111 110101 11010101 110110 11110111 110101 11111101 110100 1010101 11010101 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 821
  • Average number of words per stanza: 151
  • Amount of lines: 264
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, to, he, you, his, awful, i, her, as, she, or, ', out, we are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, he, and, who, i, the, she are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ', grave are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words ', king at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of The Princess (Part 1);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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