This is an analysis of the poem The Queen that begins with:
I saw her many years ago, my gladness and my grief.
She stood amongst the barley fields to bind the wayward sheaf....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXcddXX eebbeeeX ffccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010001110111 11010101010101 11010101010111 11010101010101 01011101110110 11011101110111 11001100010011 01110101100101 111100101110111 11010101010101 11000101110111 11010101111101 11110101110111 11010111011111 11010101111101 11111101110101 01010101010101 011101110101010 01010101010111 11010101111101 01110111010101 11010001111101 11001100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 459
- Average number of words per stanza: 90
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, her, i, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines queen is repeated).
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- summary of The Queen;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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