This is an analysis of the poem In Honour Of That High And Mighty Princess, Queen Elizabeth that begins with:

Proem.
1.1 Although great Queen, thou now in silence lie,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aaXbccXdeeccffgghh b ddeeffiijjcceeffeeccffiikkjXllhhjjkkllaaffkkkkjjmmiiffddcciiiibbffeellaallmmffhhffffmmiiffff X kkmmmm XXiicckk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,18,1,92,1,6,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 11111110101 11111011001 111010101001 11111110111 11111011100 101111100101 1110101100 10111010100 1101101101 11101000101 11101000101 11101011101 11101111101 110101000101 11100010111 10100000111 11111110011 11111110101 010 11101110100 1111101100 11001111110 10101001101 11100110101 101100000101 11110111111 10101111101 11111110001 11001011001 111111010001 11101010101 11111111101 11101010011 10101110110 10111011101 11111010101 11100010111 111010101101 11111010111 11111111001 11111010011 11101010110 11101110101 10101010101 10100010111 11101001101 1111111010 10101010101 11100011001 1110111011 10101010111 11110011111 11011100111 10101011101 11111110100 10110010101 11101010101 11101110011 10101010100 11101110101 11000101101 10111110101 1101001101 10111010101 1010101101001 11111111111 10101101111 11000000101 11100111001 11101011101 11101011101 11101011101 11101011111 111011111110 11011011100 10111001100 11101000100 11011001101 11101010100 10101010101 111000101110 11011010111 10101010101 10011010001 1111101101 101001010001 11011010101 1111110011 11111011101 11101011110 10101011101 10100100111 111011110001 11111111101 10111011101 11111011111 11111101111 111000111111 11111010011 111111101010 111010111110 11101011101 11101011110 11100100101 11101010111 11101010101 11111110001 111111111001 10101011010 10111111101 10101110101 0101 1111111000101 111101100111 11101101101 10101011101 11101011101 10101111101 010 11101011001 11101110111 111010101011 11101011111 10101110101 101001001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 784
  • Average number of words per stanza: 151
  • Amount of lines: 126
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; 1, of, 2, so, not, she, but, have, happy, 3, 4 are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words 1, 2, 3, 4 are repeated.

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