This is an analysis of the poem Queen Victoria that begins with:
The sunshine streaming through the stainèd glass
Touched her with rosy colors as she stood,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefgd hihXbeXf X jkblbbic ag emblebjm akXnhbXfnX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,1,8,2,8,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011101011 1001010111 0101010101 0011011111 1101011111 1110110111 1101110111 1001010101 01001101000 0101011100 01011111011 1111011111 0101011101 1100111101 0101000111 1101010101 1 0101011101 1101110011 0101010111 01010100110 1101001101 10011010001 1101011100 1101011101 0101011101 0101010101 1011001101 0100110101 1011001101 0101110100 1101010111 1101011101 1111011101 1011011100 1100010111 1111001011 1111011101 1101100111 0101010101 1011111111 11110100111 1001010011 1111010101 1001010101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 279
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 46
- 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; of, and, her, hath, for, dead, so, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, to, and 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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