This is an analysis of the poem The Royal Mails that begins with:

For all its flowers and trailing bowers,
Its singing birds and streams, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aababcdceecbbcecbfeefbbbddbbgeeghgiiecccejkjkahkjlalklkmkmbbmeemknknlbbbmeXmeeeXecbbeggebebbbfbXefefbbbfeeeffXembbmmhXXfhhamaaabakckcccmdmamaam
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 143,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101011010 010111 01010101 010101 11010111 010101 01001101 110101 01010101 01010111 110001 11111111 10011101 111101 11110111 111111 11010111 111101 11010111 11010101 110111 11110111 110001111 110111 110010101 01010101 010101 01010111 110101 11111101 01010111 110101 01110101 010101 11110111 11111111 110101 01011101 01011101 11010101 010101 11110101 110101 01111101 010101 11111111 01011111 111101 11111101 110101 01011111 110111 11010101 111101 11011101 110101 11110001 010101 10011101 11111111 110101 11110101 11010101 110101 11011101 011101 01110111 111101 11111101 011111 11010101 1101011 10111101 010111 11011110 11000101 010111 101011101 01011111 111101 11111101 010111 11010111 11011111 010111 11010101 01110101 010001 01110011 101101 1110111111 110110111 11111101 0101010 11110101 1001010 11111111 110101 11011101 110111 11110101 01010011 11010011 111101 11110111 01011101 11111101 110110 11111101 011001 11110111 111101 11111111 01010101 110111 1100111001 010111 11111100 110101 01010101 110111 11011101 010101 110010101 111111 11111101 110111 11110101 110001 10111111 110111 11111111 110101 11111110 01001101 011011 01010101 010101 11011111 110001 11110110 11010101 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4645
  • Average number of words per stanza: 894
  • Amount of lines: 143
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; and, he, i, ', with, blind are repeated.

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

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