This is an analysis of the poem The Pitiful Young Prince that begins with:

Hooded crows fly at night
over the walls of Chang'an,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbabcbbdXeX aefgeXhXdbaiXbih ibjijbcaggaebbcXhghabccfegbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,16,28,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101111 1001010 10011 01100101 1111010 1010101 10111010 100010100 010101001 01101101 10011100 11010101010 0110101 0101000110 01001110 1010001 111101001 101111 1101001010 1100111 101011 11110010 101111 1001010 101111011 110110 01011000 1001010101 10110010 1010001 0111011 0110110 111111 0111011 1101011 1011010 11011 100101 110001 1010100 011100 0111100 111111 1111011 0010101010 10101010 110101 010001 1010101110 11011001 110111 10101100 01111010 111 110100011 110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 551
  • Average number of words per stanza: 102
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of The Pitiful Young Prince;
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