This is an analysis of the poem The Bold Princess Royal that begins with:
O on the fourteenth day of February we sailed from the land
In the bold Princess Royal bound for Newfoundland.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXb bbXc dddd aXdX dddd bbee ffcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110101011001 001101011100 111011011110 1100010001011 11101011111 111001101101 11101101110 101001011011 11111011111 111011001111 11111101001 111111110011 11011011011 101001011111 11010101111011 110110111110 11111011110 11101011111 11111011110 10000110101101 11101011111 11101011101 11101011101 101101001001 111110101011 1010010111101 11011110001 11111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, our, and, he, us, to, windward, chased are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines day is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase we connects the lines.
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