This is an analysis of the poem A Health To The Queen that begins with:
While the thistle bears
Spears,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AaBAaBBAB cbcbbbbABbbddeeFFggBAB XXXbccXXFFhhBAB dXbbgXFFifaffjXcciXjkfkggefeAaBAaBBABbaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,22,15,40,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101 1 101101 10101 1 01001 0100101001 111111 01001 010111010 101001101 011111010010 11101101 11001101 11101101 0110101001 111111 01001 11101011101 111101111001 11111111001 11111101111 111101111101 100100110111 101100 100100 1011001001 110101011 0100101001 111111 01001 110111111100 11001001010 11111111111 001101011111 011111111111 110110111111 11101011011 111011111100 101100 100100 101100111 110101011 0100101001 111111 01001 11001011001 01111111101 11010011001 111011001011 11101111111 01111111100 101100 100100 1011001001 10011011110 111111 101110 10110011010 111 01111 1011 11011 01011 11011011010 101000111 100001 111010 111 111 10011 11101 011010 01101 10101 1 101101 10101 1 01001 0100101001 111111 01001 0110101101 111111 01001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 734
- Average number of words per stanza: 139
- Amount of lines: 89
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; health, to, queen, round, rose, boys, i, she, trumpeter, you, and, him, may, here, ditch, blow, hark are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, a, with are repeated.
The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines queen, trumpeter, him are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word queen at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase trumpeter connects the lines.
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- idea of the verse;
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