This is an analysis of the poem Queen Mab: Part I. that begins with:

HOW wonderful is Death,
Death, and his brother Sleep!... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdcefg hXgidjdklamcijhcnocpqg cooorhfcaXffmi fcjknpojbmgofa ckXmcmksf jcfojgbXkjb ciskcmmscclfmjn fcjXkcgiccs kffaikjqk sffjcXmhkdcogjcesX jfsioXffc phokfmgikcrgnmcscj sbpffX mnhggX scbmcfjnoctbppXmdfmkgX XmXarffuXpsfXffkcjp CjmecCodjvnvadp atpfjvcjc pe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,22,14,14,9,11,15,11,9,18,9,18,6,6,22,19,15,9,6,12,15,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 110001 110101 11110101 010101 01010101 1101101 0101001 11110100 1101010 1100010100 110101 111101 1111010101 0101011101 1111010101 11011101 1101010 110001 110001001 11000110 11010101 1101011101 100100110 1010010 101010010 100010 0010101 11110101 11010101 11110001 110101 1101011100 110111 110100 11110101 1101100100 010111 11111101 11011101 01010100 010101 010101 1011000101 0101010 111101 1010101 11010101 1100101001 001011110 101010111 10101010001 011111 01000101 110111 11011111 1101010101 111111 010011 01010000101 01010100101 1101010111 11010000101 1010110 11010101 110100001001 10111100 0101001 11010010001 110011101001 11001010111 10001000101 11010101 01010100 11111101 110110 1111010001 11010001 010101 011101 110101 11010100 01011001 110101 11111010 11110101 1011010 110101 110101 110111 111101 1101010 1101001 1101010 0101111101 11010101010 1101011101 11000101011 0111111011 11010010101 1101111100 1111000101 1010010101 101101010 10011100 000101 0101010 111101 10010101 011101 100101 101101 111101 1101111101 10 11101001 1001101 11000101 110101 11010101 0111111 110010100 1101001 100101 1011000101 1100100111 11110101010 1011110101 0101010111 01101110 010 01100 1001 10101 1100010100 00110001001 10010001011 110100 11010001 01010011 0100110 01010101 1001010 010011100 1100111 110010101 010010101 010001010101 01110001 10010001 1111001010010 1101000100 1101010101 1001010 01010100101 0101110101 1101110100 1111011101 1100110 10 1011111 1011111 1010101 01011111 010101 10 11100110 101001010 0011101 01000101 10101 10 11010101110 0100010101 01000010101 0001010001 11010010011 0100010101 0101110101 1100010001 0011000101 1101010101 11010011111 0111000111 1101010011 1001010101 01010101010 10010010011 1100010011 1101010111 1110011101 0001010101 010101 01011000 101010 1111110001 010100101 1101001 1101010101 11001001 11100101 110100010 111111 11010100 010101010 0101100 11010101010 01010101 01010001 0111010101 100101 100111 010111 01111101 1010111 1100101 1011101 010111 000101 0101010101 110101 1001010101 1101010 10110101 011101 0100010111 10100101 11010101 1101001 010101 01000101 011101 0101001 101101 101101 110001 1010101 1101010101 10001010101 01010010 11000001 10010100 010111 110111 01010101 0111010101 010111001 011001 110101 010101 1001010101 111101001 100101 010101 010111 110101 01011100010 110101 01000101 110101 11010010 01010101 0110101 11011101 1100100101 11010101 110111010 11111101001 011101 100101 0001000100 01111000 10101010 1011010 110101 11000101 011001 110101 1101110101 1110101 100101 1000101 1011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 424
  • Average number of words per stanza: 73
  • Amount of lines: 282
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; which, when, so, heard, and, of, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words 't, when, saw, heard, as, the, each, again 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.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines soul is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase death connects the lines.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Queen Mab: Part I.;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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