This is an analysis of the poem The Queen's Rival that begins with:
QUEEN GULNAAR sat on her ivory bed,
Around her countless treasures were spread; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa aa bb AX bb bX cc XX DX X Xe ff XX gg eX AX aa hh DX X dd ii aa aX aa ff dd cc dX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101101001 010101001 010101011 0101001011 0111101001 100100101 1111001011 10111010000 1101001001 101101010111 1011111101 0101011000 1010011011000 101011001 1010101111 11011111110 1101101001 10101011100 1 110100110 101010101 10111001001 0110100111 10001011001 10101101010 1011110101 110101101 011110101 101101011100 1111001011 10111010000 1011101001 1101110101 11011001010 11011001010 1101101001 10011011100 1 10111000101 1100100101 111110111 10111001001 1101101001 1001001001 1111001011 10111010000 1101010111 0111001001 100110111 1100101001 101110111 0100101001 101100101 1110100111 1101101001 10011011100
- Amount of stanzas: 29
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 80
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; her, thy, seven, like, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word like is repeated.
The author used the same words when, quickly at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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