This is an analysis of the poem The Story Of Prince Agib that begins with:
STRIKE the concertina's melancholy string!
Blow the spirit-stirring harp like anything!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabba ccccc bXddb eeffX gGFFG hhdXh iiXXi ddaaX bXccb jjddj jjddj XXddX fXkkf iibbi jjiij jjffjXgGFFG
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100010101 10101011101 10010101 1010001 10101010011 0101011001 10100110001 010101 0010001 10101111101 0101110011 1010101100 1110001 101011 1101100011 1101110011 11101010001 110001 1100011 1010111010100 11101010011 11100010101 1000001 1010011 10101110001 0111011100 10111111111 111111 111001100 10100011101 10101011001 10111110101 010101 0110101 11101011001 1110010111 100010000101 110101 1010101 10011101 1101011111 1001010101 110101 1010111 1100010001 1100110011 11101010001 110101 1011101 11100010011 0100010101 1100011101 101001111 10010110 10100010001 10100110101 0101110011 110111 1110110 11111100010 11010100011 111111101010 110101 1011101 11100010001 0101111101 1101110101 1110101 11100001 11001011001 10100110001 11101010101 1010101 1110001 101010101000 1101111101 11110111001 1011101 1110101 11101010001 11101010011 11100010101 1000001 1010011 10101110001
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 85
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word of at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Story Of Prince Agib;
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- idea of the verse;
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