This is an analysis of the poem The Princess (Part 2) that begins with:

At break of day the College Portress came:
She brought us Academic silks, in hue ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdebfgfhieefifj fdafdkddek kaXliXXimfkndfamkkojgbjpX emeaedkkjmkiijnkXeeeaqeklfjbgneXkfdecokkfknkfarXd fefdefnXsfdreXecaXXpkiakkkhfkkfhdebnifoetdpXbfnhdhbXfdfpXtkohknteX fidfhkkekiXifXsacXkbjkorfedXdXdthbeXdenXifXndtinaXhkrbX kdjbhjikXXeibbfkbdXaafXndfk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,10,25,49,66,55,63,29,33,118,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
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  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1744
  • Average number of words per stanza: 313
  • Amount of lines: 482
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; with, of, and, her, your, we, to, ', plot, i, that, you, not, in, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, not, the, two, a, my, no, of, father are repeated.

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

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases you, blow connect the lines.

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