This is an analysis of the poem Queen Venus that begins with:

Queen Venus on a day of cloud
Forsook heaven's argent palaces,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaabccccaacddefeefddded gggXghbbicbichhaajjXij
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,22,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11010101 011010100 01010101 11010001 100111 10010011101 1101000101 1011010101 1001110100 0101011101 11010100101 1101010101 1001110101 1110010101 11011111001 1011111101 110111000101 1111010011 1100010101 1001010101 1101011101 1111010101 1101010111 0111000101 1001110 0101010 1001010 010010101010 100101011010 101011001010 1100010101 1100110111 1001011111 1001110111 01001010011 1101110111 1111010101 01110101110 10010001010 0111010101 0111000111 0101110101 1101011101 0111010110 1111010111 0011110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 937
  • Average number of words per stanza: 167
  • Amount of lines: 46
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.

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