This is an analysis of the poem Bride Song that begins with:
From 'The Prince's Progress'
TOO late for love, too late for joy, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abcbdbebfb ggXghgbgXg ijcjhjhjXj fkekjkbkhk bbdbibibeb Xlalalglgl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,10,10,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011010 11111111 1111 110010111 110101 001010101 10101 0010100010 110101 01110101 1101 10011001 1101 101110101 1111 11110101 111101 01010111 111101 011111100 1101 0111111 1111 11110101 111101 11110001 110111 11010101 101101 10010111 1101 11010001 1001 01110100 1101 11010111 11111 11011101 1001 110011001 110011 11010101 1101 11000111 1011 01110101 111001 11110001 110001 11111100 111101 11110101 100101 110011101 1101 11111101 110101 10110111 110111 10110111 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 335
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 61
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; too, late, she, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words too, you, the are repeated.
The author used the same word we 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 ago is repeated).
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