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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