This is an analysis of the poem To The Queen that begins with:

O loyal to the royal in thyself,
And loyal to thy land, as this to thee-- ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaabcddecaXafghdXibXcjkghXcdhcehcddeecljfcfXXcjjfgkimgbbmhgcbhbXla
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 66,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1100010010 1100111001 110110001 1111110101 11110100101 0111011001 1011110111 1101110111 0101011101 1101010101 01010011111 1001010101 0111110111 1111101101 0101111010 1100110111 0101010111 00010100101 1111000101 1101010100 110001101010 1111011111 11010010010110 0101010101 1111110101 11011011010 1111010011 1100111111 11010000101 11010010101 01110111111 1110110011 11011101111 1101111101 11011101001 1001010101 11110011101 01111011 1011111101 1101110101 1101110111 0101110101 110010010001 1100111100 11011000110 11010101110 0101000101 01111111011 1101010101 1000100101001 11010001010 11110100001 1101010101 1100010111 1110011101 110100101001 1111110101 1111110111 0011010011 1011101101 1101010101 1101011111 1101110101 11011100101 0100110001 1101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3011
  • Average number of words per stanza: 533
  • Amount of lines: 66
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; to, and, her, of, or, which, knows, that are repeated.

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

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