This is an analysis of the poem The Princes' Quest - Part The First that begins with:
There was a time, it passeth me to say
How long ago, but sure 'twas many a day... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaeffaaccggaehhddeaXXiiccc caejjddbbkkXXXhXkeabXffggkk ddkXllffddmmkkiiaa cciikkccaaggccnniiaa nnbbXfiiooeaiicXiiaehhbbiXbbiib bppX mmXiaaiiXb kkggiicclliiaaXXbbggXiXbccbbhX ccjjkkhhkkbbllddkkXXXkkiiggii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,27,18,20,31,4,10,30,29,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010101 11011111001 0101110011 0101011101 1101010100 1101010101 1001100101 1001000101 1101111100 0111011100 1111010111 1001110101 0101010101 1111110101 01011101110 010010101110 1101010101 1111110101 0111111111 1111010100 1101010001 1101011101 1001010101 0101011001 1101010100 1101100011 111100110 1101000111 1111010101 1001000101 0110110101 1101010101 0101111111 1101110111 1001010101 11111111000 01011101011 11010101101 1111010111 1111011001 0011111111 1110111101 1001000101 1011001101 0111111000 1101110110 1001110100 0101100101101 1010010110 1001001111 1001011100 0101110111 0101110111 0101111110 0101001101 1101011101 11110101001 1111110101 11001010101 1101110001 110110110101 10010101001 1101000101 0101110100 1001010011 01001100101 1001010011 1001110111 1101010111 1101000111 1101011101 0011111101 1101110101 01010101001 1101000101 110110101 10010101001 1111010011 1111010011 1111000101 10010111010 0111010111 11010110101 0111010111 1101110101 1101010111 1111011101 1101011101 1101000101 1101011101 10110101010 01010001111 11001010100 1001110111 1101010111 1111010100 1001010111 0101000111 11000010010 1001010101 1001010101 01001100101 1001010110 0101011101 1100110101 0101110101 1111010101 11110011101 0101011100 1100010101 1100111001 0101110101 0101011101 1101010100 1001100101 1001000101 11010100111 11010100100 1011110101 0111010001 1111110101 1101110101 1011010111 1101111111 0101110101 0101001101 1110110101 1111010100 1001010101 1011011101 1101110101 1101111111 1 1001010101 1001000111 1110011110 0101111111 1111110101 0101011111 1001010111 1011010001 111010101000 1101010011 0101010101 1101011101 0111000111 1101010101 11110010111 1101010101 10010010001 1101001100 110010111 0101010101 01001010100 1101010111 0110010111 0101011101 1111110101 1101101110 1011110101 1101111111 1001010111 1001011101 1011010101 1101110101 1101011100 1001011001 0101110100 10000110101 1111010101 011010101 1101000101 10111111000 1101110111 11010100001 0011011101 01011001001 0101010101 0101010101 1101011101 0101010101 1111001101 1111011111 1001000101 0111010101 11010001111 1101010111 0100110101 1001010111 1101010101 0110010111 1101110101 1101110100 1101011001 0101010101 1100011111 1101111001 0101011101 1101111101 1010100100 1111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 850
- Average number of words per stanza: 156
- Amount of lines: 201
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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, his, and, to, thou are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and, of are repeated.
The author used the same words so, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase sighed connects the lines.
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