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

Even as one voice the great sea sang. From out
The green heart of the waters round about,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbccdXeb bbfbfbbbbgbgbbbbhbhbX bbffcciihhaajjiXiiXbjjiikkllbehhXcX bkkXhkkbeiiiiXiiiiihhmmffi ijjhhnfXX befniijjaa aaooaaaajjoojXkkmmbbff kkaappooffiiffhhllkk nXiiddfnbbqqiXnXaaaannllllaallaajjjXhh hhrraabXhhnX jXebaajjllaammff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,21,35,26,9,10,22,20,38,12,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10111011101 0110010101 101010010100 0101010011 01011101001 10000101101 11111101001 0001110100 1001111100 10001101001 10111100111 100010000101 1101010101 1001010101 0101110101 0101011111 1101010111 01111100111 1011110101 10010010001 1001010101 1101011111 1101110111 1101010111 0111101111 0101110101 1101110101 10010101001 1111011111 10110011111 11010101001 1101000111 1110010111 1001110101 11110001001 1111010001 1111010101 1101001111 1101110111 1101011111 0101010001 1001001101 1101011111 1001000100 1101110011 10001110101 01100101100 01001110101 0101010101 1111010100 0100110001 1011111101 1111110111 0101011101 1101011111 1101011111 1001010001 1100110101 1101000111 1001010101 0100010100 1101001101 1101110101 1110110100 1111011111 111111111 11011100001 1101010101 1000010011111 1011010110 0001010001 1100010101 01110011000 1101010101 1110111100 1110010011 1101110001 1101011111 11000100111 1011001110 01011100101 1001000111 1111010101 0100011011 1111010111 1111010101 10111001111 01111111001 1011111111 0101000101 1101001101 11001001001 1101010101 01010010111 111101111 11010100101 1111111101 01001110001 1001111101 1101010100 1111010101 11010010111 0111010100 1111110101 10011100111 11010100101 0101010101 11011101001 1101011101 11011100101 1100011001 1011111101 0111010101 0101011111 0111110001 1101111101 1101010011 0111111101 100110011 10011100111 1011010111 0101000101 100101011001 1011010011 1001011000 100110101 0110010111 10100101001 1100010101 100110101 1101010101 1011010101 01001010001 1101110111 1101110111 0101010111 0111010101 1101001101 1011011101 01001110101 1101010101 1111010111 1001010101 11000011101 0111010101 0110011111 01010100101 110001001001 1101111001 1101111111 1101111011 11001110101 01100101101 0111010011 1111100010 0101111111 01010010011 11010100111 0101010101 0101000111 01100010101 1111010111 0101010111 1111010111 1001000101 11010101110 010011011000 0101001101 0110011000 1001010101 0101010111 1101100100 1101111111 0101010101 1001010001 11000110101 0101110101 1101011101 0101010101 1101011100 1011010111 0101011111 1111110011 0100010011 01010110101 0101110101 1111111101 00010001001 011101010 1011011101 0111110001 0101010111 11111101001 11010101110 10010001010 10011010001 1101010101 0111000101 0100100110000 1101010111 1111010001 0100010001 0101010100 1111110101 011100111000 10100000100 11010001001 1111010011 1011001101 01111000101 1000011111 11111100101 0110111101 1111010101 110100010111 01111101001 0101110101 1111110001 1111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 845
  • Average number of words per stanza: 158
  • Amount of lines: 219
  • 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, to, that, and, he, his, or are repeated.

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

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

    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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