This is an analysis of the poem Queen Hilda Of Virland that begins with:

PART I
Queen Hilda rode along the lines, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBcdcecbc fgcgdhdh aijicaca aiaXkak jiXiflhl mgiXiXie jlblljkj fjmjmjnj Bdidalal jckcilbl laXaiiii mjmjlblb afafmmmm Xbadadjgj jijijljX omkmojpj dlmlljoj iqXqilpX XbnbXbibXljkjilil
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,8,7,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,9,8,8,8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11 11010101 111111 11010101 010101 11110101 11101 11111001 111101 11011101 110101 11111101 111101 11010111 010101 11010101 111111 001110111 011111 11011111 110101 00110111 011101 01110101 1111101 11010001110001 101110111 111111 1100100 111111 11110101 110101 1010010000101 1001101 01010101 110111 01110101 011101 11010001 011101 101001111 110011 01110111 1101010 10011101 111101 11110111 011011 01011111 011111 01000101 110101 11111111 110101 11011011 011101 11011101 101101 11111111 110101 11010101 110101 11001100 101101 11010101 1100101 11111101 011101 11010111 111101 11110111 010101 11011101 110101 11010111 010101 11010100001 101111 11111101 111101 11011101 110111 01111110 110101 11111111 111111 11011101 110111 11111111 111101 11111111 111101 11010101 110111 11010101 110101 11110101 1010111 11111111 101101 11111101 111111 01010101 110101 11 11110101 110101 01010111 111101 01110101 110111 11010111 110111 11010111 001101 11011011 111101 1101010 1010101 10101011 0111010 1011010 101101 101010101 1111101 1110010 0101101 10101010 101101 10101110 111111 1111000 0011101 1111010 1110101 1101110 1110101 10111111 1110101 0101010 110101 1101011 110101 10111110 1010100 1111010 01000111 1101110 1101001 0101010 110101 11011100 110101 1001110 110111 1011111 110101 1001110 101100 11110111 1010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 260
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 161
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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, his, as, some, for, we, lay, or are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, with, we, i, or are repeated.

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

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