This is an analysis of the poem To Romance that begins with:

Parent of golden dreams, Romance!
Auspicious Queen of childish joys,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd bebefgfg hchcibjb iXijijij kiklgfgf lbibmfmf bgbghfhfXgigifmfm
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 10010101 01010101 11010101 11010111 11011101 11010011 11111101 11111101 11110101 11010001 110010101 11110101 11010101 11010101 11011101 11010111 11111101 10110101 110101001 010001001 111111011 010010101 01110111 11110101 01111111 010111010 11111101 11110101 110101001 11110111 01010101 11010101 01010001 10110111 11010101 11010100 11011101 11011101 1101011 01011101 11010100 01010101 11010101 111100101 111101110 01011101 111101010 11110111 11011101 11010101 11010101 01011101 10111101 01001101 11011111 01010101 01110101 0100101001 101010101 11000111 100100101 1001111010 11111101 011101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; of, thy, to, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, no are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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