This is an analysis of the poem The Young Princess -- A Ballad Of Old Laws Of Love that begins with:
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When the South sang like a nightingale... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: a Bacca X Bdddd X bceec X bfggX a bgXhg a bijji a kdiid X facca X fhbbh X flaal a ifddf a cdddd X gdmmd X haffa X gneen i ffiif a haiia a jckkc X fgccg X agiig X fhggh a dfoof a eicci X Xbffb X fdddd X pfggf a nmhHm X faffa X kimji X fcffX a kheeh a djffj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 101110100 0101001 01001101 11011111 011111 1 101110100 0101001 11111101 11011001 010101 1 01110100 0101001 11010101 11110111 110011 1 01110100 010101 1010011101 11001101111 0111000 1 1011010100 110101 1100110101 01111101 111111 1 011100100 100110 11110101 11111101 010111 11 010011111 111101 11011101101 111011101001 110011 1 11010101 110111 11011101111 111011101111 10101001 1 110110101 110101 01100101 01001101001 010101 1 011110111 010101 11101000101 110100101 011111 1 11101100 0110011 01011111 11001001 010001 1 1101100101 010111 01010011 01011101 111101 1 110111101 1101011 010101010 0111011110 110001 1 111001001011 11111011 11110101 111101011 00100101 1 1101101 110111 111110101 11001001001 010101 1 111011101 11101111 11111111 110111110 011111 1 11010101 110101 110010101 11010101 10101101 11 11010111 1110101 01000111 111011111 0010101 1 1011110111 101001001 1100101111 111110101 011111 1 111111111 1110111 1100111101 10010110 011110 1 11010111 110101 101001011001 1010010101101 101001001 1 110101101 11011111 01010101 010100111 0010111 1 011010111 1101101 11010101 10011011 00110101 1 111011001010 1111101 10111001011 010101101 1010101 1 110111101 111101 111110101 111001011001 1101101 1 001110101 110101 1110110101 0110100101 1101111 11 011111001 010010010 011100101 01001011001 01110110 1 111101001 10101011 010100101 110111001 0101111 1 101011011 0101101 10101101010 111100101 1110101 1 0100111001 11001001 01010101 0110100111 11101010 1 0111001001 1110101 00101101001 111010101 11001001 1 1111010101 10111101 110010111 110100101 1010101 1 11110101 1100101 0100100101 1100100101 1111101 1 110100111 1100101 011101001 11010101 110101 1 111100101 1110101 1011011001 1111101001 010101 1 110111101 0101101 1100100101 0011100101 0111101 1 0110111101 101001001 111100110 1010100100 10110101 1 1011100100 0101010 1010111001 01001011001 001101010
- Amount of stanzas: 76
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 228
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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, take, her, and, sang, love, we, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, you, like, the, they are repeated.
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