This is an analysis of the poem An Ode To The Queen On Her Jubilee Year that begins with:

Sound drums and trumpets, far and near!
And Let all Queen Victoria's subjects loudly cheer!... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbaa ccdd efbb dddd ffbX aaXf ddXb fegg aahh hXff ffbb iicc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11110111 1111010001101 1111101101 011101001011 110010010011101 111110101 1100101011 11001011100011 11110010111 01110101 1111110010101 111011101101 110001111111 1111001011001 110100011001 111010101 11100100101 110100111 111001101 1111111011011 1101101101011 11110101111 111101001011 110111100010111010 1100011011 100011101 1111110100 010101110111 11010010001011101 01010100101 110110111010 01001100010110 111101101101 11001101101 0111001011101 1100010101011 1111010111 1011101011001 110010010101 010010111111 1111001011001 1100110101110 11011101 11010101011011 1101011001 1110111101 111011000101 11111011101 01000001111011 1111101001001 110101010110101 11011101001011
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; and, her, all are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same words and, therefore 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 day is repeated).

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