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

So, being risen, the Prince in brief while went
Forth to the market-place, where babblement... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbccXdcceeffggbbbbhg eXbbffiiffiiXiffaahX iiffbbjjcccjiiaaiiddXgXXghbbjjfX ggaaddjcXXffffiXffggbbfXffkkiieedd XXaaaaaaggcjccffhgee kkffbbcXjcXicceecckkiilliiXhiijjiiffggXaliXfcj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,20,32,34,20,46,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11010010111 1001011100 0011101111 0101010010 101010111 01010001001 10010010100 0110110111 1001110111 0101001101 1100111111 0111001111 11000110001 1101110101 1101010101 1001010101 01001110101 0011011101 1001111101 1101101101 0111010110 1101110101 11010101001 11010111100 0101110111 1101110011 1111010101 1101010101 1001110101 1111010101 1001100111 1111010101 01010001111 1101110101 01110101000 1101000111 1010100111 11010101001 1110111011 1101110111 10110100010 11111111010 1111010101 1010110101 11100000101 1101111101 01101010100 1110010101 1101010100 1111011111 1111100111 0101100001 1111011111 1111011100 0101010001 1001110111 01111100101 0101011101 1010100110101 1111000101 1101101111 1111010111 01011111010 10010110001 11001000111 01000111100 1101101101 1001010100 0101111101 1100111101 0111010101 1001010101 1111001111 0100111110 1111010111 1001000111 11011101001 1101000101 11011101001 1001110111 0101110011 010111000 1101010001 11010011101 1101111111 1111011011 0101010101 1101101101 1101010011 11110101000 11011100101 1001010011 1111111101 1111000101 11000110101 0101011101 1011111101 11010101110 0111100111 1110110101 10001000111 1101011101 1101111011 1111010101 1101010111 1001011111 1101111111 1101010101 1101011101 110111100 1101000101 1001010101 111000001111 1111011101 1101111001 10010010111 1101011101 0111110111 0100011101 0100011101 0101011101 01010111001 0101011101 0111010001 110111010 1101010001 1011111101 110010110101 1111110101 01010011101 1100011001 01011010101 1111010101 01110000101 1111101101 0101000110 10010100101 1101110011 1101011100 1010010111 11000110101 1111011100 10001010101 0101011011 1101011101 100100111 10001010111 1001011111 0101010101 0101011001 0100010100 1101001100 0111010101 0111100101 1101010101 1101110100 1111111101 1101010111 1111010101 1101010011 0111110111 1100110101 10001010111 1101010111 1101010111 1101010111 1101110101 11001010101 1011110100 1101111101 11001011100 1101011101 110111001001 1101110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1239
  • Average number of words per stanza: 231
  • Amount of lines: 174
  • 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; and, for, he, of are repeated.

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

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