This is an analysis of the poem The Princess's Finger-Nail: A Tale Of Nonsense Land that begins with:
All through the Castle of High-bred Ease,
Where the chief employment was do-as-you-please,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXdeeaaffbbgghhiiiiXdjjiikkkkllddhhiikkhhaaggkkXgddaaee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 60,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 110100111 10101011111 110101101 011100111 0101001110 01011111010 01101001111 01001011001 1110101111 10101100101 0100101101 10100111 1001011001 1100110101 10101101 110101101 111110111 11110110101 010100101 0010101101 10100100100 1110100100 110011101 111100101 1111100101 10100101101 11101101 11101011011 111101101 1110100101 1110100101 110101100 11101011101 0101001001 11101100111 0111100111 1001001011 1110101111 111010101 11011101001 11011001001 10100101111 101101111 0100100111 0101011001 1011100111 1110101111 110100101 110101111 1100100111 1110101101 111101001011 10101101100 1100100111 0111100111 111101101 10100101101 110101111 11100101101 1000101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2534
- Average number of words per stanza: 482
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, her, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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