This is an analysis of the poem A Royal Princess that begins with:
I, a princess, king-descended, decked with jewels, gilded, drest,
Would rather be a peasant with her baby at her breast,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaa bbb ccc ddd eee fff gXg ggg aaa eee ddd fff hhh dgd eee iii aaa eee ffX bbb XXX hhh jjX eXX ffX XXX iiX aaa eee ffX kbk ffX XXX fff lllXccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101010101010101 11000100010101 111111011110101 111110111101 1111101111101 1111111101111 1110110111101 10111010011001 1110101010101 1111101010111 10111011101001 1110101011101 1111100110101 11111011011001 1111010111101 01110111011011 11011101110111 1110111011101 1110101011100 01010100110100 1000111110100 11100001011101 1011101010101 101010110101 111010111101 0101010110101 10111001010111 11010101110101 11010101010101 1110111000111 101110110101 101010111001 1011101111101 10100111101101 1111111010111 1011101110111 11011111110111 1110101110101 110101011100101 11010110010101 11011100111101 01011111110001 01111101110101 110101001110101 11111111111001 01011101111100 01010111110101 01010101110100 01010100110111 11011101111111 010101011011011 111101011000101 11111101101100 11110101111101 01110111111101 111001010100001 11100111000111 1110111110111 10101100010101 1110001110111 1111111010111 11100110110001 110101011001111 01010101110101 11110111110111 11110111111101 1011101000101 10110101010001 01111101110111 1111101110101 1010011111101 101110101011101 1110111010101 1000101110101 11111111011111 10101001010001 1101011110101 11011100110101 1101111110001 1011101010101 110111110101100 1111111111111 110100101011101 11110111001101 111101111100001 11000101011101 11110111111101 01111101011001 1001011010101 11111011111101 110101011101010 01010101100101 110111011101110 11110111111011 11101110110101 1111110110111 101011111010 10111111101100 1011111111111 00100110110011 101100100110101 111111100011 11110101111101 10110101011111 10110101011101 1010101111111 0101111010101 10110100010111
- Amount of stanzas: 36
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 108
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; two, and, all, self, alone, sit, i, my, father, his, of, some, to, head, men, me, for, ', hand, your, with, they, perish are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words two, self, some, the, they, one, or, i are repeated.
The author used the same word all 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 ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase alone connects the lines.
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