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

So without rest or tarriance all that night,
Until the world was blear with coming light,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXXaaccddbbbbeXf fXXggeeaaaahhbbaaXdiibbddaahhjjbbXd jjggkdddXihhbbddcc hhaajjhhcciiaad daaeehhaaaabbllaaXddX hhggmmeedkhhbbnnd dhhnnjjoohhccXX aaXdppXXhheemXXqmmdd oojjjjlleedkrrdkeebbaXjjhh dcd cqc Xhq hdh dbd blb lilX rrXXbbXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,35,18,15,21,17,15,20,26,3,3,3,3,3,3,4,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1011110111 0101110101 1101010011 0101110101 11010101001 1011010100 1101011111 1101010011 0101010001 1111010111 1101000101 110110111111 0111110001 1100010101 0111010101 0101011101 0101110111 1101110111 1101010100 1001010100 10001111101 11000011100 0100010101 1101010111 0101110101 11010101001 1101010111 1111110101 1101010111 100101100111 11001010101 11010111001 01110110111 0100010101 0101011101 1011011111 0111010100 1101110111 0101010011 1111011101 0101110101 1101010101 11001110101 1101110101 10110111101 1100011111 1011010111 1101011101 110111011 1001111101 0101001111 1011110001 1101100100 1111011101 1001010111 1001010111 1100011001 0111011101 1101010100 1111111111 1011010111 110011000111 1111011110 01010100101 00110011101 1111010111 010101011 1101001101 11110101001 00110011111 1001111001 10010001101 1110110111 0101011101 1101011101 0111010101 1111010101 1101110101 1101110101 0011010111 0111110100 11011011101 0111010100 1010010111 01001011111 1001010111 01110101101 1001110101 1101010101 11001111001 1101010111 0111110101 1101110101 10001011101 0101010101 1101111101 1101100101 01110100111 0101111101 01010111001 0101010101 1111010101 1111011100 1111010101 1001011100 1111010011 1101110111 0101010101 1101011101 1101110101 1100110111 1101010111 1101010111 1111011101 1111110111 0101111101 1101110101 1011111100 1011111101 11010010001 1101011101 11110100101 1011101101 1111000101 1111011101 10010101101 1001110111 0001110110 1001110101 1011010100 1011010101 1101111101 0101100101 1011000101 0111010001 1111101001 1101100101 0101001001 1011111000 0111111000 1111110011 1111011101 1101110100 1111111101 11001110111 1011001111 1011010110 11011100111 0111010111 1001010111 01111101101 11011010101 1101000101 0101101101 1001111100 1011110111 1111110101 01010110101 1110010111 11111100110 1101100100 1101110111 1001010101 0101111101 11011000001 11011010011 1111010001 11010100111 100010011101 1011010101 0111001110 1101000100 1111110101 1111110101 1101110110 0101110100 1111110101 0101010101 0101011100 1111110101 0111110101 1011011011 1011010001 0111010101 011111011 1101001101 1111011101 1101010101 1111111101 1111100011 1101011111 01010011001 1111110110 0111010111 0111011101 01110111001 1111010111 1101010101 1101010101 11111101111 1101011111 11001010101 1001010101 10010101001 1111010101 1101010111 1111010101 1001011101 1101110101 01010010111 0111000111 1001110100 1001011100 1001101101 0101001110 1111011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 544
  • Average number of words per stanza: 102
  • Amount of lines: 217
  • 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, be, that, to, her are repeated.

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

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

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