This is an analysis of the poem The Three Queens that begins with:

IN the far time of Earth's sweet maiden beauty,
When Morning hung with rapture on her breast; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd cecedXdX fgfahd hdijij bkbk XgXg cece cdcXcdXd dfdXilil XlfXdddd ddddkbkb mbmbclclkgka hXhddididdXddhdh lglgibibigXg mlml nlnliiXiXibibclcl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,6,6,4,4,4,8,8,8,8,12,16,12,4,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 00110111010 1101010101 110010111110 11001110101 11011101010 1101111101 11110100110 0101010111 01110011010 11011010011 10111100010 10011101001 01110101010 01110000101 011100101110 1101011101 111000111010 11011100111 01011101010 0111111100 010111001110 1111110101 11110101010 1111010101 0101111101010 110110101101 11111001110 1101110111 11011101010 1101000101 11010111010 1101001101 11010011110 0101010011 11010101100 1101011101 01010101010 1101010101 110011101010 1111010101 111000101010 1101010011 10111111010 0111110101 11010001110 1111001101 1101110111 0100011101 01111101010 11001110101 110010111010 0111000101 11011101010 1101111001 011100010010 1101010001 01111101010 1101010111 10001101010 0111010101 01010100010 1101111111 01010100010 1111110111 11111101010 1001010110101 01010101010 1101110011 01010101010 1101111101 11010101010 1101010101 11011101010 1101110001 11110101010 0111011101 11010101010 0111010101 10011101010 110101111101 11110101111 1110111101 11011111011 1011011100 11111101110 11111100101 11010101010 1101010101 11010101010 1111011001 11011101010 1101010101 11010001110 0101110101 11011101010 1111010101 11110111010 1011010101 10010101110 0101110101 01010001010 0101010101 10111110010 1111010111 01110101010 1101111111 01010101010 0111010101 10011101110 1001010101 01111101100 1101110111 11110101011 0101010011 01110101111 0101110101 010111001110 01010101001 11110111010 1101110111 10110111010 111111011001 01010111100 1101000101 01111111110 1111011101 01010100010 0101010001 01110101110 01110101001 11110101010 0101010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 358
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 132
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; and, her, nor, they, him are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, her, here are repeated.

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

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  • summary of The Three Queens;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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