This is an analysis of the poem The Princess that begins with:
The princess looked down from her bower high,
The youth blew his horn as he lingered thereby....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AabbX AabbX AabbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 0101100101 01101111011 11011001011 01011111011 111010 0101100101 01101001111 101111011111 01111111011 111010 0101100101 01101111011 110110101111 01001011011 111010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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.
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- summary of The Princess;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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