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

A fearful and a lovely thing is Sleep,
And mighty store of secrets hath in keep;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXcXddXe fXffggeeffbb hhXiffjjXciijjiiXgbbkkeekkffeehhkkeellddeellcciiiilX XmlliiffXnXkiijjooXpkkjjllmmkkffeXXkq qeeeekkjdeeffbbpijjggbbffkknnll eeeehhbXffkkiXjj kkffhhqX eeeekkeeookkqqhhcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,12,52,37,31,16,8,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0101010101 1101010101 1110011111 11010011000 1101010111 1101011100 1101011110 1111010100 1101110110 01011001001 1100010101 1101010100 0111101101 0101001100 1110000101 1101100011 1101000101 1001010111 1011101011 0111010101 01110100011 1101010100 1101010101 0111010001 1001010100 11110011110 1101010101 1100011101 1101001101 11011011101 1101011100 1111011111 1110111111 0111010111 1111110111 1001001011 1101011100 10010001111 11111111100 1111010101 1101000100 1101111101 11010001001 1011111101 1101011111 01010101011 10111010111 11001110111 00110101001 1101010101 1001110100 1101011111 0100010101 0101010001 0101010101 1001111101 1101010111 1101010100 01000101111 1111011101 01011101010 11110100110 1111100111 1110011111 101111101 01010111010 0101010101 11010011001 1111110111 1101010101 1101010101 0100010011 0101010101 1011010101 1000110100 1101010001 1101010111 1101010111 0101011001 1111110111 1101111111 1011011101 11010111010 1101010111 11010110100 1100110111 1101011111 1111010101 1101111011 0111011101 1111010111 1101100111 1000111100 1101111100 1101110111 1101010101 1101010101 0111110111 1101010001 10010101001 1101010101 01011110100 0101010101 0101000111 010111010010 0100010110 1011110101 1101111110 0111011111 1111110001 1111001111 1011110011 0101010101 1101011111 01100101011 1111100111 0101000111 0101110101 1101010101 0101110100 1101010111 0011010001 10010000101 1101110101 01010010100 0101010101 011000001100 1111010010 11001011101 0101011011 1101001111 111110100 0111010101 1111110101 1111011101 1100011001 1101010111 1100011100 11110111001 1101111101 0100110101 1101001110 1111110101 1101011101 0111111111 1111001111 01000101011 1101010111 0101110101 1100010100 0101011101 0101010101 1100011111 11001000111 1001011111 010100111000 1011010101 1111001101 1001010101 0101000101 10110001001 10110001001 1101010111 1101010101 1111000101 10011111100 1100110001 1001010001 1101010001 1001010101 1101011111 1011100111 1100010001 1011110101 1001001111 0111010111 11011111001 1100011111 1001111111 1101011111 1101110011 1011111111 0100010101 11010110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 989
  • Average number of words per stanza: 182
  • Amount of lines: 184
  • 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, that, of, to, her, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, no are repeated.

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