This is an analysis of the poem Queen Mary’s Letter To Bothwell that begins with:
Pitiful gods! Have pity on my passion.
Teach me the road how I a certain proving... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abba acca XXad beeb fddf dggd daaX hiih dccd bjjb XiiX kkkk dlld dmmd nooX dffd XiiX XfiX dggX mllm inni fjjf mccm aaaX kaak nmmn XaaX maam lnnX deed eppe XkkX qmmqXdkkd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011101110 11011101010 11011101110 11011100110 10110011010 00110111011 001110011011 01000101110 11111111010 10110011010 11110110010 01001101010 00110101110 0111001001 1101110100 01110111010 1110101011 01111101010 11111100110 1101011111 01101111010 1111001111 0011010111 11111001010 11110101110 1111010101 1101010111 10110111110 11110101101 110100101010 11111110110 1001000111 10010101010 1011001111 1011010011 11011111010 11010111110 1001011101 1001011111 10110111110 11100011110 10010101010 01011111010 11011011110 1111100111 01110101100 11111111010 0101010111 10111101110 0101010111 1011111111 11110001010 11110011010 10111111010 11010111110 10110111110 11011011110 1011001111 1111110101 11010101010 11110101110 1111011111 1011101101 110111101110 11100111110 10010000110 100101001010 11010101110 111011001110 0011011111 1011001100 00110011100 111100110010 1011010101 01110100101 10111101100 11110001110 1111110001 0111110101 10011101100 11010011110 1101010101 0100011111 01010011010 00111101011 10011111101 1101010111 11010111011 011110011100 0111011111 0111010011 101110111100 00111100110 1101111111 0100111101 11011111100 11111111010 1101011101 0111011101 11011101010 11011111110 1101010101 1111011111 11111111110 01110101110 0111010101 01111011111 01111101011 01110111010 1101111101 1101011111 11110011010 010100110000 01010001011 1111000011 111001001000 11001101110 0100100010 0111111101 11001111010 1011111111 01001111010 0100001011110 1100100100 11110100110 0001011101 1101011101 01101101100 11001100010 1111100001 1111110111 11111101010 11111101010 0100011101 1111011101 10010011110
- Amount of stanzas: 34
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 136
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; my, of, too, her, naught, i, you, she, and, with, to, lest are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, she, to, how, the are repeated.
The author used the same word she 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 him is repeated).
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- summary of Queen Mary’s Letter To Bothwell;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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