This is an analysis of the poem In The South that begins with:

There is a princess in the South
About whose beauty rumors hum... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababccde fefeggff hdXdhhiiXdhdhhhhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010001 01110101 11010101 01010100 11010101 11000101 01010101 11110101 11011101 11000101 01011101 11010111 11110101 01010101 010010111 010010001 10110101 110001001 01110111 01011101 11110111 11111111 011101110 011101010 11100101 11001101 11110111 10010101 11110111 10011101 0100111001 11010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 273
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; of, my, so are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.

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