This is an analysis of the poem How A Beauty Was Waked And Her Suitor Was Suited that begins with:

Albeit wholly penniless,
Prince Charming wasn't any less... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbcdebffgfhhiXfdidi cceXjjkXfflmggccmidic eeeliiXleeibnnhhbiXiX iiXfXXafbbnokkeoolklk aandiikdggkmcXeemiXiXXii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,21,21,21,24,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010100 11010101 0101010 1010101 11000100 11110101 1100010 1110101 0010111 1011101 1111011 0010111 11100110 10101110 10111010 1100 101 11001101 01100100 11111111 11010100 01010100 11010100 010110 1011101 01010101 11010100 11000100 0010101 1010111 110001 10111010 1010001 10101011 01101011 10101110 1010 101 01011101 11110011 11011101 11000100 01011010 11011111 01010101 010101 11110100 11010100 01010101 110100 1110101 1110011 11101010 1010101 101000110 11101010 0101010 1010 001 01011101 01001000 11110111 01010100 01010100 11010100 01010100 1100101 110111100 11010100 1101010 1010101 1110101 1010101 10111110 1010111 00101110 101010110 111010011 0101 01 11010111 11111100 01111101 01011100 01000100 10010100 01110100 010101 01111100 11010100 1111010 1110101 1110101 1011101 1101010 10100111 11111010 11101010 1101110 1110 011 01010001 110101010 01110111 111101010 01010111 01010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 523
  • Average number of words per stanza: 94
  • Amount of lines: 107
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him, it are repeated).

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