This is an analysis of the poem The Princes' Ques -Part The Eighth that begins with:

Now as it chanced, the day was almost spent
When down the lonely mountain-side he went,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccdd aaaaeeffghbbiiddddaabbbbiidXjX kklliiaakkmmbblX kkddiiaabbjjkkeehhghghllhX aaddnnaabbooiihhiiiioo nnkXXkppXocXmbcXXhiil liiiidXggkXaa hgggccbbqqookkiiaaggdX iiqqoXkkiibbccghiieeddcccX kkkkiiiiaakk ddbbaaiX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,30,16,26,22,21,13,22,26,12,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11010011111 1101010111 010001011111 1101000101 01010101001 11011101011 11011111101 0100010011 0101010111 1111010001 1111010011 1110010111 1011001101 0101010101 0101011100 1001100101 1001011101 0101000101 1111001111 0101011101 0111110001 11110010111 0011111111 1001010101 1101111101 1001010101 1101011111 11010000111 1101000101 10110110101 0100010001 1101011001 10110011111 0101110101 1111010101 11110110111 1101101100 0101000100 11010100111 1110010011 1101010111 1101010111 1111101101 0111110111 1110100101 1101000101 1111010111 11011111111 1111111101 1001111101 10110110010 11101101010 1011110111 0110011111 0100010111 1101010111 1100111111 11011000111 0110111000 1101110111 1101011100 11011000001 0101010101 1101011101 1001100111 0111000111 0111101101 01011000101 1101000111 10110101001 1111111101 11010001111 1111011111 0111011001 0011011010 0110110011 0111110101 1111010101 1101010111 11100010111 0111010101 01010111010 1101110101 11111001111 0100011101 1011010001 0101000101 0111010111 1101111101 0100010111 1101010111 1011010111 1101110101 1101010100 1001010101 110001011 1111011101 1101000011 1011111101 1101010100 01001110111 100111101 0111011001 0101110001 1111110111 0101001111 0111010001 01011111100 111101111000 0101110111 0101001101 1101111001 1001010111 1011011111 10010011111 01000010100 1111010100 0101010111 1101111101 01110000101 1111011100 1101001111 0101010101 1101011111 1101011111 1011010101 0101010101 0111110101 0101111101 0101100101 1000111001 1111011100 11011000001 1011110011 1011010101 1101011100 1001000111 1001011110 1101010111 1111000110 1101010001 1101011001 1001111011 1101011111 11010110001 1111010101 0101001101 11001010001 1101111111 0101111101 1001010101 1011010111 1000111011 1101001101 1101101011 1101111101 1101110111 0101010101 0111110101 1100110100 1101111101 1101011101 1101110101 1111101111 1111011100 1001111101 1111011011 0101010101 0101010101 0111011111 1001011111 1001011111 11001100101 0101010101 10110000111 0101110101 1101010101 01010101001 0101010001 0101011101 1101111101 1101011111 1111110001 1101110001 0101011111 0101000100 1101110101 1011010101 0101010101 1101010101 1101110101 1001010111 01110101001 1001010101 11110010101 1011010101 0111011111 1111010101 1101110101 1101010111 1111000101 1101000101 10010010001 1101110001 0101010111 1101010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 805
  • Average number of words per stanza: 154
  • Amount of lines: 206
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; of, that, and, thy, he, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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