This is an analysis of the poem Three Portraits Of Prince Charles that begins with:

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BEAUTIFUL face of a child, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abab X ccccadad X efef ghghffffgbgbijijajajkjkjhfXflflf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,8,1,4,32,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1001001 1001011 1011011 1101011 1 1001001 11101011 00111001 001101001 111011 101101101 01011101 1101011 1 101101 1011001 1101001 01001101 111001 1100101 01101101 00111011 01101001 10111001 01101001 111011111 111101 00101011 00101101 00101001 1011101 111001 00100101 00100101 01001101 1100101 101101 010011 100101 1100101 1001001 0011011 11111001 11100101 11101011 110101 1010111 1101101 1010101 1010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 51
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, to, thy are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.

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