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

Sir Walter Vivian all a summer's day
Gave his broad lawns until the set of sun ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcdebdf fghaijXXhhehhek dXgafhlldh ilmnddoddhgiiX glnddabXhdbpqhgblpfhiilXjbhdcqdXldhdbljl jnXoXbbnhcgdljiidfddllfhbblbrXdlkohXaX qbdgobmlhdlh ddhehceldXldnX dhaoXlrdfhhhfiblXX haejdldlleiadhghjleqfdedbhbfbqlXgXqXdgjfnXfdnodfggX aaqXXbjlffflfgifhgkXbkbl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,15,10,14,40,38,12,14,18,51,25,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11010010101 1011010101 1001010111 0101111101 01001101101 0111010111 0101000101 0101010011 110101011001 1111010101 1101010001 1001101100111 1111110101 11001010001 1101101101 11010100111 1001011100 1111110101 0101010100 0100101100101 0101011101 00101110101 0101010111 01100011101 1111111101 1111111100 0011110100 0101111111 1001011101 1101010111 1101011111 1101010111 0111110101 1101010001 1100010101 1101110101 1011010001 1111110101 1111111111 0101110001 01101101110 1001010001 1101010101 1101010101 11010010001 1101010001 1101010101 1100010100 11010100100 1111001111 10101010100 11010000111 11011111000 1101110101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 0101001101 1001110101 1101010101 0100010101 0101110101 1111100101 1101111101 010111011010 0101010001 0101110101 1101110101 01010100101 10001110101 01011101001 1101010101 0101010101 01011101001 1111010101 1101010111 1111010101 1101010011 0101010111 1101010100 1101010101 1101010101 1101011111 0101011111 1111010001 1101011101 01010100101 1101110101 1101110001 1111110011 10010111101 01010101010 11110011111 0101011101 0111110101 1111110100 11000011101 0101111101 0101110101 11110100101 1111011111 0101010101 1101000101 110110000101 1101110101 1101010101 1111010101 1011111001 1101010101 1111111001 0101110101 1111010101 1111010111 0101010101 11001010001 1101010101 10001010010 1111011111 01010010111 11011100011 0111011111 0111010100 1101010001 11110100110 1101010111 01110110101 11010011101 1101010101 0011011111 1111011111 1011011110 111011111 1101110111 1101110111 1101010101 1111011111 11111111101 0111010001 1111010001 0111111111 01011010011 11110001101 1111111101 11111100111 1110010111 01010100001 11011110001 11111 100101 11010101001 1111111101 1101110111 10011110111 0101010101 1111011101 11010101010 11010110001 1111110101 1111110100 1101110011 1101010101 1111110101 1111010101 1101000101 11010001001 010110100111 1101010 111 1111111111 11110101011 1101110101 11110010101 1101010011 1101111111 1101010011 1101111011 1101011101 1101110101 1111110101 0111000111 0101010111 11000010011 1111010101 1111011111 1011110111 0101011101 1101010101 11010101001 0111011101 1111111111 11110 10101 0101111101 1101010101 1111010111 110101 0101 1101010001 1101011101 0111010111 11010110111 1001010100 10101010101 11010010 111 0101100101 11001110101 1101010101 0111010101 1100100101 0101010101 110 1010110 0101110111 11001010101 1101010110 1001010101 0101011101 0101010110 0100101110 1010110011 1100111001001 1101110111 1101010101 01011 1101010 1101010001 10111111001 01011101010 1101010111 0101010101 0101010111 0101010101 1101110100 1100111101 0001011111 11010010001011 1101011101 1101011010 0101110101 0111010 1101 1011010101 0101010001 1100010001 1111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 981
  • Average number of words per stanza: 176
  • Amount of lines: 246
  • 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; and, he, her, nor, of, i, you, that, she, they, as are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, 'o, a, the, that, they are repeated.

    The author used the same word and 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 read, will, ' are repeated).

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

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  • central theme;
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