To The Queen Of My Heart by Percy Bysshe Shelley: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem To The Queen Of My Heart that begins with:

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Shall we roam, my love,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbCdDC Xccacca Xeefggf Xaahiih aggcjjcXabbCdDC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,15,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 11111 00111 1010101 11101 00111 11110111 1 11101 00111 0101111 111011 10111 11101001 1 10111 11011 1010101 11101 10111 101111101 1 11101 00101 1100101 11001 00101 1111111 1 1101 10111 11101101 01001 101001 01011011 1 11111 001101 1010101 11101 00111 11110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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