This is an analysis of the poem Boadicea that begins with:
While about the shore of Mona those Neronian legionaries
Burnt and broke the grove and altar of the Druid and Druidess,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXb XXXXcdefgXXbgX XXaXhafbdeXeX XdbXXighXXXXX XbhabXXbXeXbhXiXXbeXhgX XXXhXbXXahcbiaaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,14,13,13,23,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101011001010 111011100010110 100110010100100 11100111000110000 11101010101001000 11101010100101000 11101111101001000 01111110011011000 11100110111001000 1100100011000100 111010010111001011 1010101010100100 11101010111001000 10101010010100100 11101110001001000 1010101010001000 111001010111001000 101010101101001010 10101010100100100100 101100100101001000 10101110110011000 111011101000100 11111110001001000 10010100100101100 10101010101100100 10101011010000100 1001010010101001011 101010010010101010 10101010100100100 11111111111101001 11101010101001000 11100101011100100 11100111011101000 1100100011000100 111001010111001010 11100010101001010 10101010101001000 10110101110100100 10101011110100100101 1111111011001011 101001010101001010 10100101011111000 10101010101001000 10111011101010010 11101110101100100 11100010111001001 1100100011000100 10101100010100100 11111110111101010 10101010010101000 11111110100001010 10001111011100100 101001010101001000 11111110101001010 10110110010100100 10010010101100011000 1100100011000100 10101011101011000 101001011101001011 1010011100001001000 111010100111001001 10111010011010000 111111100111111 101110100101001010 101010111001001000 1010101000111000 10100010111101010 10101010101001011 1110111001110100101 10110010100100 1000010111010101 1110101000110000 10101010101001010 1010101010100100 10101011111001010 11101010111101000 11101010111101000 101010010011001010 101110100101001001 11101010010100100 1110101011101000 101010100001001001 101010100101001001 1010101010000100 1010011101001001000 10100101101101001000
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 913
- Average number of words per stanza: 150
- Amount of lines: 86
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, they, hear, of, gods, have, phantom, thine, me, in, there, my, her, on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, phantom, shall, thine, so, me are repeated.
The author used the same word hear at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Boadicea;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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