This is an analysis of the poem Thou Art the Queen of My Song that begins with:
I long for thee; must I long and long in vain?
I sigh for thee; will thou come not back again?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbCdcEC ddccCdcECXaaccCdcEC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,19,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111111101 11110111101 111011 0101111 101011 01101101101 110110101 101100 1101011 01111010111 010111101001 111010 11110110 101011 01100111111 011110111 101100 1101011 110111101011 11011110111 110010 11001010 101011 111110101 10011101 101100 1101011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 320
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; long, i, of, days, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the, come are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word song at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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