This is an analysis of the poem The Prince's Day that begins with:
Though dark are our sorrows, today we'll forget them,
And smile through our tears, like a sunbeam in showers: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccbddbebe fgfghhecchehe ihihddehhhehe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,13,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110011010 111111011010 110010110110 1100101111 11101 1101 11110001010 11011 11001 101111101001 001011011001 11101101011 11101111101 011010111010 11011011111 1010110011010 01001111001 11011 1111 11001001001 01001 01101 1111110110001 111001001001 111010110100 1110110101 110111010010 01111011001 111011010010 110110111 01101 11001 110110101 11001 01001 111011011011 11010111001 01011111001 11111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 548
- Average number of words per stanza: 100
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; our, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word day at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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