This is an analysis of the poem On The Birth-Day Of Queen Katherine that begins with:

While yet it was the Empire of the Night,
And Stars still check'r'd Darkness with their Light,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeccffXeccXfgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11010100001 1111010011 0101010101 10010010101 11010101101 1111111101 1011100101 1101010101 1101110101 1101010101 1111000101 110100011 1101010111 0101100111 11001001110 1011010101 01011111101 1101110111 1110101110101 1101010111 1101111101 11010110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 484
  • Average number of words per stanza: 90
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and is repeated.

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