This is an analysis of the poem The Little Handmaiden that begins with:
The King's son walks in the garden fair-
Oh, the maiden's heart is merry!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABaaC dBddC edfX ghfh ifcf fhhh Xihi afhf Xheh ajhj gdXX hXcX cece ihfX dBdXCXABaaC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 011100101 10101010 110110111 10101101001 111001110 0111101001 10101010 0101000101 111011101 111001110 110110101 10111011 10100100111 10110101 11001001001 0101001 1011100101 1100111 110100101 10100101 1110100101 010101 110100101 00101111 011100101 1010101 111101111 01001001 111100101 010111 1101111001 1101111 1110100101 1110101 100010111 01011001 010110111 00100101 011100101 10101001 10100100101 1011101 0111000111 11111011 1111111010 0100111 1111101011 111111 1011100101 1010101 10101110101 1100101 1101111101 1011101 111101111 1010101 11001001011 11101010 1011101111 10101010 1011100100 0101000111 111001110 011100101 10101010 1010100101 1011100111 111001110
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words the, she, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word maidens at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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