This is an analysis of the poem Adieux À Marie Stuart that begins with:

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QUEEN, for whose house my fathers fought,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbc dede fgfG bcbc X hihi hjhj hihi kdkD X fifi lglG mnmn didi X lclc dgdg ococ pcpc a clcl qgqg hbhb kdkD a bibi mgmg ifif riri X bcbc gdgd fifiXkckc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 11111101 011111 110101001 11 11111111 1101011 101111101 11 01110111 111111 10110100 11 11110111 111111 10111111 11 1 111111010 1000111 1111001010 0101001 1101001110 111101 111011010 010100 110111110 1011 111111110 0101 110101110 1111 1101010010 01 1 110111001 111111 110111110 01 101100111 111101 11101101 11 11010111 1111 11011101 11 11010001 1101 11010111 01 1 11110111 110101 11110101 11 11110111 1101110 11110011 110 110110011 0111010 11011101 110 11110111 1011111 11010101 11 1 11111011010 110111 010111110 111111 111111111 111111 011111011 011101 110101010 11001 110101010 1100 111101010 1101 110111110 01 1 01011111 110101 11111101 01 11110101 101111 11010111 11 11011111 1101 0100100101 01 11111111 01001 010010101 01 1 11111101 111111 01100101 11 110111010 011101 110111010 01 11010101 011111 11111100 01 111111110 1101011 110110110 11
  • Amount of stanzas: 35
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 92
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 120
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, or, nor are repeated.

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase farewell connects the lines.

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