Analysis of Rapunzel (part 1)
Kings and their kingdoms
of history(so said)
had very strange rules
about daughters and wed.
Instead of the girl
having choice of her own
the king and queen thought
that she wasn't full grown.
And as was the custom
there was but 2 ways ,
a door less high tower
where the princess now stays.
And someday if somehow
a prince was so rare,
he'd climb to the top
with some help and some hair.
And he'd save the sweet lady
that up there did stay,
so the 2 would be married
the very next day.
The second opinion
perhaps was the best,
10 princes were chosen
and put through a test.
the one that would win
would be husband and wed
the fattest or thin,
Just as long as good bred.
Now the princess Rapunzel
was the youngest of 10,
and all of her sisters
were wed with good men.
Both options were used,
each decided by lot,
so Rapunzel's turn came
and they drew for the plot.
It fell to the second,
10 princes soon came,
all put through the test
and but one did remain.
Now Rapunzel for one
had some brains of her own,
and she knew very well
that she was tall and grown.
The prince that had won
she most truly despised
so the night she did run
to the tower to hide.
And there she would stay
till she starved or could plan
how to get far away
from that terrible man.
And that is the story,
Rapunzel's first part,
of a girl with a mind
and some guts and a heart.
Scheme | XAXA BCXC XDXD XEXE FGXG HIHI JAJA BXXX XKLK XLIX HCXC HXHX GMGM FNXN |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (79%) |
Metre | 10110 110011 11011 011001 01101 101101 01011 111011 011010 1111 011110 101011 0111 01111 11101 111011 0110110 11111 101110 01011 010010 01101 10010 01101 01111 111001 01011 111111 10101 10101 011010 01111 11001 11011 1111 011101 111010 1011 11101 011101 1111 111101 011101 111101 01111 111001 101111 101011 01111 111111 111101 111001 011010 111 101101 011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,293 |
Words | 268 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 56 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 75 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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