This is an analysis of the poem On The Sight Of Swans In Kensington Gardens that begins with:

Queen-bird, that sittest on thy shining nest
And thy young cygnets without sorrow hatchest, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXabaabcddcdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111011101 11110011010 11110101110 10110100101 101111001010 1011011111 01010110111 11010011110 010111000100 0111010101 0111110010 010101010100 01001011001 0101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 655
  • Average number of words per stanza: 105
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; in is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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