This is an analysis of the poem The Way Of Wooing that begins with:
A maiden sat at her window wide,
Pretty enough for a Prince's bride,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccbddXdDX eefggfhhiDDX jjfkkfjjiDDX llkggkaaidDX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010110101 100110101 11111010 1110100101 010111101 1101010 111111111 101111101 0101010 1010111001 1011101011 10101010 010110101 010101111 1111010 010101111 010011100 1110010 10101100101 110101101 0111010 110111001 1011101011 10101010 0101011001 010100101 10101010 1100101111 110101101 110010010 10010101011 111110111 1101010 110111001 1011101011 10101010 011110101 010100101 1101011 110111101 111100101 10101011 111010101 010100111 0111010 010110111 1011101011 10101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 445
- Average number of words per stanza: 83
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, and, lover, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, a are repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word wooing at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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