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

If solitude hath ever led thy steps
To the wild ocean's echoing shore,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcdeabeXfgffhijkglm efenejfioifjekiaim iFeeepfaploiihj ijfboiXoijenX FfamfXiXXiipjak faKcKaiajfaXof gkiqemandmrs ieiipjbodmpjbiamf omkooimj fffmekpfsigrlXpaijpeeimieXlX iqaeXmXambaifbdimirX ekaebpfmXdmmXiaieffefmmppqaep gmmieeoeXeikfi ieammieobmeefcemoe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,18,15,13,15,14,12,17,8,28,20,29,14,19,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101110111 001101001 111101 010111 11010101 111101 01011100 1100101 111101001 1001000100 1001101 100101 1110010 101101 11011010101 111101001 10010101 11010111 1111010101 1100101 010101 1101010 1001101 1010010 10100111 1010101 101101 11110001 11010010101 1101011101 11011010101 010101 011101 0011010 1010101 1111001010 110100010 11010001 110001010 01011101 0101010 100101 1101 11010010 01010100 00010011101 011101 1001010100 1101010 10010010000 0111010101 1101011101 110100100 0101010 100101 11000101 100101 1111001 1001010101 0001010101 01000010100 0101000100 01001010101 1011010101 0011010111 1101001101 01000100 0101010 0101010100 01110101 11100101 11100001 1010101 010101010 11011000 010101 010101 0100101 01000100 1010001 01001010101 010101 110101 110001010 110101 111101 110101 101101 1101010101 1100010100 110111 011010101 1101010101 01000100100 1100011101 1001010 01010001 010101001 01010101 0101000101 11111100 1100110 0101000100 1101010011 110101 101101 1001010101 0011010 100101 10010100 011011 011101 11010100 0100011 100101 100101 01010101 110101 010001100 010001 1111001 11010101 01100101 100101010 111101 1000101 0100110 110101001 110011 11011101 011011 110110010 101101 101101 110100101 100101 11110101 11010010101 10010101 0101010 110010101101 010011110010 1101110001 0111010001 1101000101 0101111100 010101 01010100 11010110001 11001001101 1101100101 0111111100 010010101001 1101011101 1111110101 01010100110 0101000101 0111110101 000100101100 01110101010 01001000 11011101 10010101 01110001 01110100 010011010 110000100 011101000 11010101 110111 1011111101 0101010 111111 11000010 010101 1101010101 0101011101 1100101 1101110001 0101101001 1101100 101100 110101 1001110101 01001110101 10010101 0101010 01000010100 11010101 1001110001 110101 1101010 101101 100100001000 010111 10001010011 10110101 1011111100 110101001 1010010101 10111101 111101 010101 111101 1001000100 1011011100 1001101111 11011101 100111 01000100 111110011 111101 10100101 11000101 110101 100101 1100101 001101 010101 010101 001101 110001 111111 101101 110101 11111101 01010101 110001 110011 010101 111111010 1100010100 00010101 111111 1101010100 100101 101101 101001 1111010 0101010 01110100 100101 111101 0101010 0100010101 11000101001 011101 1101010000 100100100010 01010001 11011000 010101 1111010100 0101001001 0100010101 011101 10010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 565
  • Average number of words per stanza: 95
  • Amount of lines: 257
  • 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; many, and, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words its, the, that, behold are repeated.

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

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