This is an analysis of the poem On The Death Of The Queen that begins with:
Mary of Modena d. 1718 {1}
Dark was the shade where only cou'd be seen... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabbccddeeffgghhggiiggaagggggaaXgggjjXgggkkjjggjjggllggggiXmmggmmccXXmmiimmbbXgXhddggmmiXiiXijjiiggddbbjjiinnggkkXXXiggmmkkaaddiiXiiiaajjmmcccjjaagggXii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 153,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100010111 1101110101 100011101001 1000010111 10101010101 1101011111 11001010101 110100111001 0111011001 0101001101 1111000101 1001111101 1101010101 1001011101 1111011101 11110001001 1001010101 0101110001 1101110001 11010111001 1101010101 1101110011 1101010001 0101101001 11001110101 0110010101 1001100111 1011000101 111000111 1101001001 1001010011 1011001101 111000101001 1111010011 1100100111 1101110100 1001000101 1101000101 01011101100 1101110101 1101110101 1101100101 1100010111 0111100101 0101010101 1001010101 0001111101 0101001101 1101100101 0101000101 0111010001 1110010001 10010110101 01001001011 11000100111 1011110101 01111010111 1011011101 1111010111 1011010101 0101110101 1101010101 1111000001 01001001001 0101000101 110101010101 1101011101 11010101001 1101010110 01000100110 0111011101 011111001 1101110001 1101001011 0101111101 0101010101 1111010101 1001011001 110011101011 1101010101 11011101111 0101100101 1101000101 1001100101 1110011101 1111110101 11001001001 010100101 1101010011 1101110101 1111010101 1111000011 11011101011 1101111001 11010010101 01110100 1011010101 1011010101 1011001111 1110010011 11010010101 010010011001 1101011101 1101010101 0100110101 1101010101 1101100101 0101110101 10010010101 1101010101 0111110101 01001110101 1101010101 11001010101 10101010101 1101110110 11010101100 1101010101 1001010011 1111000101 110110111 1001100101 1101111111 1101110111 11011100010 101010101010 1101011101 11010000101 1101111101 1001110110 11000010110 1101010101 1111110111 11011010011 01010100101 110101101 1110010101 1100010111 1101010001 110011100101 11011110101 0100010001 111001100101 1001100001 1111010101 1101011101 0111110101 1100010101 0100100101 100101101101 1101100101 1101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3207
- Average number of words per stanza: 558
- Amount of lines: 152
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, thou, to, what, never, such, had, in, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, all, as, when, what, never, till are repeated.
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