This is an analysis of the poem Hopes that begins with:
A PRINCESS, sleeping in enchanted bowers,
Earth springs to waking at Spring's voice and kiss, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaa baba cdcd cece aaaa efef fgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010001010 10101011111 110101100010 1101110010 01101010111 1101011101 1101010111 1111010101 0101111111 1011011011 11101011111 0101010101 1011110111 0111110101 11100011111 11001110101 1111011100 111100111010 1001010000 1101010101 1101011101 1111111101 0011111101 01110100001 1111011101 11010011101 10111000001 11111001101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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, of, by are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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