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

And passing through the city he went out
Into the fat fields lying thereabout,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbaacdeebbaaffaaccddbbgghhXcaaddhhiijjddbb kkXhkkgg bbhhffXgggeehhffiXa aaaggaabbkkbbhhlfaa ffffkkdcmmflkk ccnncchhfXaaffffhhnnfdfaahhaaddkkaambmbbggaabbaakkaaff kkcckkaacXffaahhaa ccggaXmmhhXcbbhhaalfhXhhcdmmee XaXaaaXheeccaaXghhhhkkddX haajjmmmmbXkk e
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,8,19,19,14,54,18,30,25,13,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010111 0001110100 11010001001 01010000101 10010000101 0100010111 01100100111 0101011011 10111101000 1101010001 1101010111 0101010101 0111010101 0101010101 11000011101 1101011111 01001000101 11001000101 11010010111 1101110101 1101010101 0111010101 0101011101 1101010001 0111010101 01111111001 0101011001 1100010111 0111011111 1101110001 1101000111 01110011101 0101000101 0111111111 1111010111 1001011101 01111100110 1101010100 1101110101 1101110101 0111110101 01110010101 011110111 01111011001 11001011101 11110111001 1101010110 0111111101 0111100101 0101011111 1001010101 0101010111 1101010001 1111010111 1011010111 1101010111 0110011101 0101010101 1101110100 1111100101 0101110101 1111010101 1101111101 1101110101 1101011001 1011010001 1111010111 110010010001 01000100100 1101011111 1101000100 110010011101 0101011101 1001010111 1011010101 1011010111 0101010111 0101010101 1101010101 1101110001 1001011101 0101010001 1110010101 1101110101 0111110111 11010100101 1101010100 01100010101 0101110101 011010001 1101110111 01010101101 1111000101 01010011101 10101010101 1101110011 1110010111 1101000111 1101000111 01001100100 1111001111 1111010100 1101001111 0100010001 1111010011 0111110101 11010100001 110010100101 0111011101 1001000101 1011011101 0111110100 11110111101 1001010111 01001010111 0111110111 11010101001 11010110101 0101010111 0101010101 1011010101 10001011111 01010010111 0111110101 0111110101 10010 11101 1110111111 1111110001 1101010111 10101000101 1101011101 1111000100 1101110101 0101001101 1111011101 0001110111 0101101101 11011011001 1101010101 110 1011111 11000010101 1001110101 10011101001 0111111111 0111000100 1111001101 10110001001 10010000101 1001010101 11110011111 01001010101 01001110101 0101011111 11110100111 1001010111 0111010111 1101010111 1100010111 1101001100 1001010101 0101010101 11010010101 0101010011 110010100101 1111110101 1101110111 0101100101 1101100101 1001000101 1100011111 11110011111 0101010001 1101011101 10011010111 101010100101 1101111001 10011100111 0111010101 0101100101 1101010100 1111011101 0101010111 1101110101 01011111001 1101010110 0101010011 1111010001 1101110111 01110010101 1001010111 1001011111 0101010001 0101000100 1101110001 1101010101 0111010100 1101111101 0101100101 0001011101 01010100101 0101011111 1111010101 110100100111 1101011101 11111101010 1111111101 11010111110 1101110101 1101010101 1011110101 1111111110 0101000101 0111110101 1111010001 10111100101 10100011011 1111011111 0101010101 0111110100 1111001111 1101110111 11111011001 1011110011 0101110001 0100111111 1011010101 1101011101 1010011111 00011100101 1101110001 0110000111 1001100101 0111111001 0011111111 1111100101 01010110100 1101110101 1011100101 0100010111 0101110010 1001010111 1100010101 1101011001 1110010011 1101010110 1111010111 0101000111 1101110100 01010101011 1101011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 981
  • Average number of words per stanza: 183
  • Amount of lines: 252
  • 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, and, he, sea, to, day, his, thou are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, of, faster, and, nor are repeated.

    The author used the same words but, so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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