This is an analysis of the poem Christopher Marlowe that begins with:
Crowned, girdled, garbed and shod with light and fire,
Son first-born of the morning, sovereign star! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbbbbacXXcdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11011101110 1110010101 1101011111 11100100111 11001011001 1111010111 1101010111 11011101110 10101110101 11010011010 1101010100 0101110001 01111110111 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 657
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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, all are repeated.
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