This is an analysis of the poem A Wayside Queen that begins with:
She was born in the season of fire,
When a mantle of murkiness lay ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaabb cdccdd efeXff ghgghh ijiijj ebeebb ekXekk XLXXLL EFEEFF AMAAMM CCCCXC XLXXLL EFEEFF AMAAMM CCCCXC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010010 101001001 1010010010 111010010 101011101 001101011 010011010 001001001 111010010 011011010 01111011 111011101 10110100010 01101101 111110010 1010111100 01011111 001111001 1010010110 11101101 1110010110 010010111 01101001 111001011 1011010110 01111001 010010110 010110110 11011101 001011001 1011011010 11011011 0010011110 111010110 11101011 101011011 0011110010 01001011 111000010 110011010 100101011 001101101 0110100110 101101001 010010110 111110010 11011001 101001111 1011110110 11111101 0010011110 111110010 01011101 001101001 111010110 110100111 0010110010 110010110 111001111 111101011 0111111010 11001001 111010110 011110110 11101011 011001001 0110100110 101101001 010010110 111110010 11011001 101001111 1011110110 11111101 0010011110 111110010 01011101 001101001 111010110 110100111 0010110010 110010110 111001111 111101011 0111111010 11001001 111010110 011110110 11101011 011001001
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 90
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; of, her, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word where is repeated.
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- summary of A Wayside Queen;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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