This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 9: Queen Virtue's Court that begins with:
Queen Virtue's court, which some call Stella's face,
Prepar'd by Nature's choicest furniture, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXba abba cdc dee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101111101 0111010100 1011010101 10010001101 0111011101 1100110111 1101110101 1011111101 0101110101 11001111101 1110110101 0111101111 1101010101 0111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; which, touch are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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