This is an analysis of the poem The Old Age Of Queen Maeve that begins with:
A certain poet in outlandish clothes
Gathered a crowd in some Byzantine lane,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdeXa fagdaahhijkblmdndbhoochmldbaoXomXXmdhhaabakakagcailpcXkebbdapindqpoojkXckfXpXhdmebXdlplXqXadXlhaXgodphodXaaklaaaiedabamhdohddhhbafddXahmbbibaolXaXXXheo
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,151,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101000101 1001011011 10001010101 0111001111 0101011001 010010011111 1111011011 1101010001 01011110011 0101100101 0011110011 10001110111 101011101010 1101010101 0100011101 1111111101 110101011001 1100110011 1101000111 1111101101 10110010111 11101100010 11111001001 110101011010 1110110111 10000100110 111101111 11011101011 1111010011 10110 1101 1111010100 1010111111 1100010011 1111110111 1101011100 1111010011 10010110110 1011110111 10111111110 1101010100 110010010101 11100110100 01110111101 0111010101 0101111101 0111011101 01101111101 1001011101 11011100010 1111011111 10010010101 11001111101 11011010101 1111101001 1110011111110 11010111111 0101010011 1001111011 1101110101 1111011100 1100010101 01111111001 1001000101 01001111101 0101011001 11010101110 1111001101 10010100101 1101010101 11011110110 10110101010 11001000101 1001011001 1100111011 1001010101 0110101101 1111010111 0100111101 10110110111 001100111101 10011111111 01111010101 0101011111 111101111010 1101011101 1011001101 11010011010 1111010101 1001110111 1011110 101 11011011111 010001101 110101011 11111010101 01010111101 101110111 1111011111 1111110111 10110 10110 0101101101 1110110001 1100010101 1001100101 1101010011 11001110101 1101000101 10111001101 1001100101 1011011101 0101010101 01010101001 1100010101 1111111011 0101110001 1101110101 1001111111 1110011111 0111011001 10011101100 0101011111 01011101010 10111111101 0101011111 01110101010 1101101100 0101001111 1101110101 1100111001 1011111111 1011001111 0101001101 11111101001 1111011001 1101110011 0101011101 1111111111 1100010011 1011111111 1111010101 1100011111 01010 110111 1101010101 0111011001 01011011001 01111111001 1101011111 001101011101 01000111110 101110100110 0100011111 00110101010 1101110 1110 110011100111 0100111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3431
- Average number of words per stanza: 646
- Amount of lines: 159
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; his, in, and, had, he, that, voice, of, to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and, he are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines voice, stood are repeated).
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- summary of The Old Age Of Queen Maeve;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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