This is an analysis of the poem A Requisition To The Queen that begins with:
Smiths Buildings No. 19
Patons Lane,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabX aabb accdX abbb aaeeedccbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,4,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011 101 01 1011 1101001001011001 1110111010101101 1011011001 10110001101 1101001001101001 11111111101101 101100101100101 110001101111010 10111100 100100100110101 11101000111011 111011001011100 1110010100010111 1101001001100101 110001 11110001 1110111 1110001111001 11010011110 10101110001 11010101101010111 11110100101001 101000110 11001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 29
- 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; and, it, you, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, most, i are repeated.
The author used the same word most at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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