This is an analysis of the poem The Queen's Demand that begins with:

Rama shall be crowned at sunrise, so did royal bards proclaim,
Every rite arranged and ordered, Dasa-ratha homeward came,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa bb aa cc dd ee dd bb dd bb fX dd bX bb ee gg hh bb ee bb ff bb ii cc cc jj bb Xd cX ee ee hh bb hh ee gg ee kk cc ll mm cX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 101011111010101 1001011101010101 001000101000101 101010101010001 1001010111001101 101110111000101 101010101011101 111111101010101 101000101011101 101110101010101 101010101110111 1000010101011111 101010101110101 1010101010011101 10100010111101 1001000101010001 110010101000101 101010101100111 1011101001010101 101000101010001 0010100111010101 101010101010110 10111010100101001 0010100100010111 111010100100111 111100101010101 101000101010101 101010101010101 101010111011101 10001100101011001 1010101010010101 110110101010111 1011100101010001 1010110010101001 101110101000101 101010111010101 101010101011101 00101101010101 1001111101010011 101011011011101 010110111010001 101010111010001 001011011111101 101110101011111 111010101110101 111011101011101 1111111001100101 111010101001101 1110010100010101 1011011001111101 100010101010101 110010101010101 101011001110001 101010101100111 1001111001011111 111111001110111 10111001001110101 101010101010101 101010101110101 101111101011001 101010101011001 111011101011101 111010101111101 111010101000101 111110101111101 101101111111011 101000101111111 101010101010111 101000101010001 10101111010111 101110111100111 100110101111111 001010101100111 101110101110101 101110101110111 101111001111001 101010111110101 100110101100101 111011101011101 111011100010101 101110100011101 110010101010101 111100101111111 111110101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 42
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 84
  • Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, of, in, not, her, like, my, witness are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words like, wilt are repeated.

    The author used the same words through, like, if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Queen's Demand;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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