This is an analysis of the poem The Death Of Prince Leopold that begins with:
Alas! noble Prince Leopold, he is dead!
Who often has his lustre shed:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeaa ccff ghii hhhh XjcX kkii ggcc jjaa aaXg lllm iijj ghgh aacX mmjj eeXi Xjjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01101101101 11010101 0100110101000101 1111011110101 101111011100111 01001010100101 1110001010101010 101010011011010 11001001010101 1110101001101001 111100110010101 10010011101 11010101110001 1110111000101 011011100111 10110101111111 011101110001 101010111001 011010100011101 1101100111 1101010101001 1011001110101 0110101010101 1101110101 11100010100011 11100010110011 0101110101 101111010110 10100100011110101 0100101011011101001 111010100101001 110010011001 1110001001011011 111101001011001 10111101010101 111111111001 111101010110001 110010001001001 1110111111 0101110111 11010110111 11010101011 1001011010010 1101000101100101 10001000100011010 11101000101101 1010000110101 10100011010000101 0101111110001100 101010010001 1010011111 110111100101 10101101010110101 10101010100101 110111110101 111110101101 0101010110100001 010001001001001 1010111011001 0101000100010100 0110100010110110 1111010111010 1010100110100001 0100101010011101 010010100111110101 1101101001000011101 1010101010101010 101010100101 10101001110001100 10110110111 1110111111001 1010010011011111
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his, he, to, she, in, of, her, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, when, the, then are repeated.
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