This is an analysis of the poem The Quest Of The Queen that begins with:

All on a windy morn in lusty March,
Rode Godwin hawking thro' his father's woods...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbddbbecfcce cecghcijhbbkdblbbhXllbhllhlmnioeoXlpn gebblhmiicqrqqhhqhnqhcX shcghhchjcghbdhblXtflq pbrrdtljblldojh cspdhuXcddtedjelbhhXhicXh bdlgntdhclpthehlihdjcjbpqtsehXeldjhilhuthcbrhhbsdbbshXkljlldddhd gjhldfhpblc gllhjbjhccbbdbhedbelhbtdjddhttlrbleX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,37,23,22,15,25,64,11,51,32,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010101 1101010101 1101111011 11001101101 1001010101 1110110111 10110011101 0101010111 110010100001 1101010001 1101010010010 1001010111 0101010111 1100110001 1001011101 1001011111 1111010101 1101000101 1100011101 0111010111 0100010101 1011010111 1111110111 1101110101 1101110101 1111011001 1111110101 1011010111 1101110101 1100010111 1011110101 1101011011 1101010111 11011100101 1111111011 1111110001 01010010111 1101010101 1101111101 1101010001 1011110101 1011010101 1001011100 1111010101 1001010001 11011111001 0111000101 1111010110 1011010101 1001010101 0111011100 1101010101 010100101001 1001110101 1101110101 1001010111 1101010001 1011110101 1101110111 1111110111 1111010001 1101010001 1101011101 1111011011 1100010001 1011111101 1011110101 1100010001 1001110101 0101010100 0100010001 1101101111 11010010101 1101010001 1101110101 11001010101 1101010001 1101100101 1101110101 1011110101 1001010001 1011110101 10010011101 11110101001 1101011101 0101011111 1101010101 0101010101 11000010101 1101110101 11010010101 1100010001 1001111111 01010101010 1101010001 1111 010101 0101011101 1101110111 1101010 101 1111011101 1001011111 1001011111 1001110101 1111011101 1001010001 0101010111 0100011111 010110101001 10111101011 1101010101 1101010111 1001011101 11000010101 1101011101 1011011111 1001110101 1001011101 1101110101 1001010001 1101111101 011111 1111 0011010101 1101010100 1101010001 1011010001 1111011111 1001101111 1011111110 1111000101 1111110011 1111011101 0110111111 1101110111 1111110001 0101010001 1101010001 1101010001 1011010100 10111101001 1111110001 1111011101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 0101011111 0111111 101 1001110101 1101010001 1101110101 11111100111 11001011101 1001010101 1111111101 1111110101 1101110111 1101110101 111110111 1101011101 101011 101111 1101011101 1101000101 11011001001 11110010101 0101010101 1101110101 1101110111 1101111101 1101010101 1101111111 1101010111 1111010101 1011010101 1011110101 1111110111 1001011111 11001010101 10111001001 1011110100 11001110101 11011101001 1111011101 1101100100 1101011001 1011000101 1011010111 1101011101 01010101 1001010111 11110010101 1111011111 1110010111 01011100101 1111010111 1101111111 0111111101 1101011111 1101010111 1101011111 1101110111 110101010 1011000101 1011010001 11010101010 1101010101 1101010101 0011100111 1011110101 10010010101 1110110111 1001010001 1101010101 1101110101 1101010101 1101011101 11001010111 010010111001 1111110 111 1101010111 0111111101 1111010101 0111010111 1101100101 110101 1101 1101010001 10111010101 1101010 111 11110010101 1101110101 001011 10111 1101010001 1100010101 1101110111 111100 10101 01011010101 11011101001 1111010 111 1111010001 10010011111 1111010 101 10110010111 11010101001 11110011 101 1011110101 1100011101 1111011101 1101001001 1101110001 1111 110111 1101000101 1101110001 1101000101 1101010001 110101 1011 1101010111 1101110111 1101110111 1001101 1101 1101110111 1101011101 11101011111 1111011101 110100100100 10101110100 0100010001 1111110111 1111010101 1111111111 1101111101 1011011101 0101110101 110110 111 0100110001 1111110100 1101010101 1001110101 0100110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1219
  • Average number of words per stanza: 230
  • Amount of lines: 294
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; his, and, of, whose, follow, to, with, leaving, here, your, he, that are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, and, whose, follow, a, the, leaving, here, he, i, o are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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