This is an analysis of the poem Queen Radegund that begins with:
Between the dark and the day,
To the King's room where he lay...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabac dXeef fgg fXhhggiX bbjjdX kk iiddXagX lliiiiaaggeeaXllcX mm ddggddaaffdXXffddffdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,3,8,6,2,8,18,2,21,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101101 0011111 01011101 11010111 11001100 1110101 11011110 1010111 1110101 1011111 1111101 1001111 1011101 101101 1110111 111101 1011101 1010111 1111101 1010111 00101010 1110011 1110111 11111010 10101010 1010001 1011010 101001 11111101 11111 1110111 1010101 1010111 1010100 10111001 1110111 1111110 111111 1011111 111101 0010111 1110101 1010111 1110000 1011101 111111 1110101 1110101 01010101 1011101 101110 1000101 1000101 1010100 101101 111111 1011111 101101 1011101 1111101 1011101 1011101 1011111 1011101 1011101 1011111 1111111 1011111 1011010 1011001 00101001 10101001 1011101 1011101 1110101 1011111 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 77
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, i, give, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, thou are repeated.
The author used the same words and, cold at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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