This is an analysis of the poem Queen Eleanor's Confession that begins with:
Queene Elianor was a sicke woman,
And afraid that she should dye;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcX dbXX dbbX XdXd efgX gdhd XbXX XbXX XbcX iXXX HXDb IXhX HXDX IfXX HXDX Bdad Bdad dXXX eXXX fbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010110 1011111 11111101 010010 01110101 111111 11011101 111101 110101110 1110101 1101011001 111011 111100111 110111 110110010 111011 1111011 1111010 110011001 1101010 1101111 111011 0101101001 10100101 11110101 1111101 11011101 1111100 111101011 110111 10111101 111101001 111101011 110111 11101101 111001 111111010 100110 11011100 0101010 101101101 110101 10101110 001111 111111010 01111 11010101 010110 101101101 110101 10101110 1110111 111111010 0110010 11001100 1011010 101101101 110101 10101110 1110111 11110101 010001 10111101 11110101 11110101 010001 10110101 11110101 110100101 0101011 11011111 111010100 01110111 101101 11111101 111110 011100110 101111 110111111 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; by, and, you, we, ', i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words 'do, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words ', all at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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