This is an analysis of the poem Brantford's Welcome To The Prince Of Wales, 1860 that begins with:
Welcome, thrice welcome, to our fair town,
Albert Edward, the heir to Brittania's Crown!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAbbaccc ccddceee fXggfhhh cchhcbbb hhiihbbb AAjjahhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 101100111 10100101001 110110 010100 11101011001 001001 111001 11101011011 101011011 11101011101 111010 111010 01011001001 01011 011001 11001111001 111101001 11011011101 111110 010110 11011111011 111111 101011 111011111101 111011011 11111111010 110110 0100110 11101101001 11111 101001 11101001101 101111011 01101101011 0100110 110110 01011101011 11101 011001 01011001101 101100111 10100101001 110010 111010 01111111001 111011 111001 1010010000101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 285
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines of is repeated).
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