This is an analysis of the poem Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: Xviii that begins with:
Alas, poor Queen of Beauty! In my heart
I could weep for you and your sad graceless doom.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacacXbXbdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 0111010011 11111111101 1111111001 0111000101 1111011111 0100110111 1111010011 1100011101 1111111101 0101010101 1111010101 1001001101 010011100001 1101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 611
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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