Prais'D Be Diana's Fair And Harmless Light by Sir Walter Raleigh: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Prais'D Be Diana's Fair And Harmless Light that begins with:

Prais'd be Diana's fair and harmless light;
Prais'd be the dews wherewith she moists the ground;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcccccdcdbabaee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001011101 10011001101 1001010001 100101111001 1001011101 1001011101 1011111101 1101011111 0101100101 0111011111 0100001111 1100100101 11011101001 0100010101 1001000111 0001001101 0101000101 0101011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 811
  • Average number of words per stanza: 152
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; prais'd, be, she, in, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words prais'd, in are repeated.

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