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

COME forth! the world's aflame with flags and flowers,
The shout of bells fills full the shattered air, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcc dedeeee bfbffbb fefeeee fghggbb ieieeee cacXaaX fghgXgg gcgccee gjgjjee jajaaaa acaccbb kakaXcc XfafhcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11010101110 0101110101 00010111010 11110101011 000001 0101110111 111101010111 1111010111 10101110101 11110111011 0111110101 110111 1101111011 111101110001 11110010101 1101110111 1011110101 1100110101 110101 0100110001 010111010111 0101111001 1101010101 1101111011 0100011101 011111 0100110101 111110100101 0111011111 1001000101 0101010100 10001010111 010111 1101010101 0011011111001 10010010101 1011010111 0111010101 0111011111 011011 1011010101 110100101001 1011010011 1001110101 1111011101 1101101100 110111 1011000101 1100111111110 1101011111 0100100100 1111111100 1111010111 1011101 1111111101 1010001010101 0111011111 11100011101 11010011101 1101110101 011101 1001000111 011011010101 1011011101 10110010011 1111010101 1111010101 010111 001010101011 01101111111 0101110111 10110011001 1101111101 1101000101 110101 101101111001 011101010101 1101010000 1011011101 1011110111 0111011111 110111 0101110111 110111101101 1001010111 1011010101 01010101001 010111110001 011100 0111010101 110111111001 1001011101 0101000101 1111110101 0101110111 110100 11010010101 1111111010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 311
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 111
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; your, and, love, in, who, her, long, you, faces are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, and, faces are repeated.

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

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