This is an analysis of the poem The Princess Elizabeth, When A Prisoner At Woodstock, 1554 that begins with:
Will you hear how once repining
Great Eliza captive lay, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba cccc deXe fgfg hihi hjhh fXfj hghg bkbk hghg cjcj didi bXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111100 1010101 10101010 1010111 10111010 1010111 10111010 1010101 11111010 1111101 10001010 1110101 10101010 1010101 10101010 1010101 11101010 10101001 10101010 1010101 11101010 10111101 10101010 1010101 11111010 1011101 11111010 00100101 11100010 101111 11101010 1010001 10101010 10100101 10101010 1010101 10101010 1110111 10101010 1011101 101010110 1110101 101001110 1101101 101101110 1010111 10101010 1010101 10101010 1001101 11101110 11101011
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; so, had, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words love, then, none are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase love connects the lines.
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