This is an analysis of the poem The King's Daughter that begins with:
WE WERE ten maidens in the green corn,
Small red leaves in the mill-water:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dbdb ebeb cbcb fbfb abab abab gbgb Xbgb Xbgb Xbgb Xbgb Xbeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101100011 11100110 10101001 100110110 101101011 11100110 10101001 10110110 010101001 10100110 01110101 111110110 010110101 11100110 01110101 111110110 010010101 11100110 01111101 1000110110 01111101 101000110 01111011 10110110 101100011 10100110 10101010 10110110 1110111 010100110 101101111 010110110 101111101 010100110 0101011101 010110110 111010 11100110 0101011101 010110110 11010010 11100110 01101101 0100110110 11010010 11100110 110101101 110010110 11011010 10100110 1011101 100110110 110111110 10100110 11111010101 010110110
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- 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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
The author used the same words we, the, he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word daughter at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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