This is an analysis of the poem The Queen And The Beggar's Child that begins with:
Silk and diamonds and trailing lace,
Haughty carriage and fair proud face;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcccc ddeeffgg hhffiicc ggXciijj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11101101 10101111 100101001 11110101 100100101 101011001 10100101 10101101 10110101 10101101 101110101 10110001 010100101 010101011 101101111 010100101 10100111 01010101 10100111 10011111 11011101 10010101 01010101 10100101 11011101 100101111 10010101 11010111 10000111 10101101 10110101 11101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 286
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word down at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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