This is an analysis of the poem To The Queen At Oxford that begins with:

Great Lady! That thus quite against our use,
We speak your welcome by an English Muse, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccaaXXddeeffeegghhXbaafXfXiijjbXbagghhaaddggddXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 50,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101110111 1111011101 10010111001 0001111100 1101010001 01111100100 1111011010 1101010001 1101011101 11001010011 100101111 1101001001 1111010101 0111111101 0101001101 0100010101 1110111101 0101000101 111101111 01110111001 11011101100 11001010011 1111011101 1101110101 01111101001 110111110 1101111111 111011111 0100010101 0111110001 0011111111 1111000101 1101111101 110111110 1111010100 1011011110 101100101 1111010011 01001101101 11110010001 1101010001 010100010 1101011101 0111000101 1101010111 010011010 1111011101 1111110101 1111010010 1101001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2171
  • Average number of words per stanza: 383
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; you is repeated.

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