This is an analysis of the poem Prologue To The Princess Of Cleves that begins with:

Ladies! (I hope there's none behind to hear)
I long to whisper something in your ear: ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccddeeeaaffXXggccccaahhhhiibb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 35,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1011110101 1101010011 0101111101 1100010111 0111011111 11010010111 0101111111 1111000101 1111010101 1111010101 1001111101 1111011101 11010011101 0111111111 1111111101 1110110111 1111111101 11110101110 010110010100 0111011101 1101110101 01110111110 01111101010 11110101001 10001111010 0111010001 1111000101 11010111110 11011111010 11110111010 11010101010 11111110101 1011110101 1111010111 0111011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1618
  • Average number of words per stanza: 297
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; we is repeated.

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