This is an analysis of the poem Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: Xv that begins with:
Thus it began with laughter. But anon
The ox--eyed queen, who had resumed by rote... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabacdcdececbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1001010110 0111110111 0100100111 11110010101 11111101011 1101010111 1100011010 0101111100 1011010111 10101110101 1001111101 1011110110 0101010101 0101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 610
- Average number of words per stanza: 126
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; by is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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