This is an analysis of the poem To The Queen Of Hungary that begins with:

Princess, descended from that noble race
Which still in danger held the imperial throne,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gaga bhbh ieie jbjb djdj XaXa dkdk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001001101 110101001001 1101011111 11010111101 01001111101 1011010001 11000010111 1101110001 01110101101 1100110101 1011010101 11000110101 10001010101 00101110111 1111111101 1011010101 11001110101 0111010101 0100111011 11010100111 1101110001 1011010101 1101010101 1101010001 1111010101 1001011101 1111011101 1101010101 1101000111 1100010101 1000110001 11010011001 11010100101 1101010001 11111101010 1101010101 1101010101 1111010001 1101010101 1111011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; from is repeated.

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

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