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

All hail to the Empress of India, Great Britain's Queen!
Long may she live in health, happy and serene;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aababXXXaXXccaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 11001001001101 11110110101 1100111101 11101101 011101100101 101010001 110010011 1110011001 0010100101 110101011010001 10101000101 1101011010101 1101111 010110101 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 631
  • Average number of words per stanza: 122
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; her, to are repeated.

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