This is an analysis of the poem The Princess (Part 6) that begins with:

My dream had never died or lived again.
As in some mystic middle state I lay; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcda befbaXgXchi cjjca Gccdf Gbkla jmafc mkcgfc nofbolicgacflfX fcjgofdopXccaflacofflcX hcbjdXccaocXahbnhphjdcocnclgfjX ffqXdhchahfdfXbcjabqoccchbfmochfmcc XadhdacblfdhrXfrscmlofodrccjocfccndcbjootboamfihoqooX cbbX cacbohX cac cabhocnanccckhsofacgbebtbr
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,11,5,5,5,5,6,15,23,31,35,53,4,7,3,36,14,50,4,14,37,5,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111011101 1011010111 1011110111 1011111111 1101111101 1101111101 1111110111 1111110111 1101111011 0101110111 01011110011 110011101101 110100110 1101010101 0101011101 1111010011 110011011001 0101111001 11011011101 01011111001 0101110001 110011011011 0101010111 0101111101 1100011001 11110111001 110011011011 0100110101 1101010101 1101111111 1111010101 110011011011 0111110111 1111010001 01001110011 1101000101 11001101011 0101000101 01010101011 0100010101 0111010101 1101010001 11110111010 01001110111 0101011011 10011110001 100110101001 11111000101 11010101001 0111000101 1111010111 10010011111 10110010111 1101011101 0100111111 1111010100 0111110000 1110011001 0101011111 0101010101 11011110111 110100100101 010001101111 00110101001 11000100101 1011010111 1101011110 1101000111 100011010001 1101010001 11011010101 1001011111 0101010101 0101010111 1111011111 1111010100 11010010101 11111100111 1111111111 0111110000 1101101101 1111110011 01101000101 1011111101 10011110001 11000111111 01010111001 0101110001 0011100101 10011100101 0111011111 11111101111 1111010101 1011010101 1101110101 1001010100 1001010101 0101010101 1111111111 1101010101 0101010101 0100110001 0101110001 11110110111 010101111100 11011111011 1111101101 0111010111 1101011101 0100110111 1111000101 1111010111 11011101011 1111011101 0101111101 1111110101 01010101111 1101011101 110110100101 10011010101 01110010101 010110101001 110100101001 101110011111 0011111101 1111010101 11001010101 1111011101 0101010101 1111010001 1111010111 0101010101 01001011111 11010011101 1111010011 0111010001 0101011111 0111010111 1011111111 0101011111 101111100101 1101111101 010001100101 11110111011 1101010101 1011011111 1111110010 1011110101 111101111100 1101110111 1101010010 1111100101 10011010101 1111111110 1101010101 1111010101 0101000101 1111111100 10010101010 11111101100 1010100111 0111011000 1001101111 1111110011 0111111101 1111011101 10011011010 1001110101 1100110011 0100111111 11010100 11 1101010101 11110010111 10010111001 1101110101 100011101001 11001110101 01001110101 1100010100 1001100111 1111011101 1111111111 0111010101 1101001111 1101011101 0011111101 1101111101 101111101110 1011011101 1010110111 101100111 1111010111 0100111101 1101110101 1111010101 1001011100 1101000101 1111110100 1101110111 1101110111 111111111101 11111111100 1101110101 1101011101 1110010011 0101010101 11110011111 1101010111 111101110111 1101110101 11000010001 1101010101 1111010001 1101011111 1110110101 1011010101 11110111010 101010101111 10111100100 01010111111 1101110100 0101110111 1111011111 1111110011 1111011101 1111110110 1010111101 1101010111 1111110101 110010100011 1101011001 10011001101 1111111101 1111010111 1111111111 1101010011 1101111101 11011110010 0111101100 11010101111 0111110101 1101010111 1110111101 1111010111 1011111111 1101010001 1101011100 1101110101 1101111001 1100100100111 1101010101 0101011101 0101110101 00110111110 1001101111 1011110101 1011011111 0111110111 001001101010 1111110101 1111010101 010100111010 11111111001 0101011101 0101111111 110011011 110 1101111011 11111100001 01110101110 1001011101 1101110101 1111110101 1111010111 1111011111 1101111111 01111011111 0101010100 111111 11110 11110101011 1111011101 01110101110 1111101111 1101010111 11001100101 1101011111 1101011001 1011001101 1110111111 0111011101 01110100100 110101110 1001 1001011101 11010100111 0111110101 11110110010 1111000101 1111011101 11001110101 1101010101 0101111111 1100011101 11110001010 1111011101 11111001100 1101110101 0111001111 1101011111 1101111101 1101001101 1111010101 1100011101 111110010010 1101010111 1111111111 1101111101 1101110111 1100101111 1011111111 0111011001 1111111111 1111110011 11110011110 1101010011 11001010101 0101010101 0101011011 0101010101 1111011111 1001000111 1010010101 0101010101 1111110111 1011011111 0111011101 0101010101 01110010101 1101010111 1101010101 1101100101 0101010101 1101010101 0101111101 1101110101 0101010111 0101010111 11001110101 11011010101 110101111 1111110101 11001010111 0101010 101 01010100100 1111101111 01110010101 0111010111 01011101100 1101001111 1101010101 110010010101 11001110101 1101011110 0111110101 1110110111 1111011101 01110101101 0101010101 1111111101 1111 1111110111 1111011101 1111101111 1111111111 1111 1111111111 1101011101 1011011001 1111110111 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 24
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 723
  • Average number of words per stanza: 134
  • Amount of lines: 385
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; i, not, so, that, and, my, they, fallen, have, for, of, our, on, she, her, its, he, his, your, you, or, to, thy, as, false, it, me, one, nor, highness, all are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, and, of, her, the, now, you, a, i, to, ask are repeated.

    The author used the same words 'our, but, ask at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

    The poet repeated the same words ', more 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 dear, i connect the lines.

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  • summary of The Princess (Part 6);
  • central theme;
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