This is an analysis of the poem Attempted Assassination Of The Queen that begins with:

God prosper long our noble Queen,
And long may she reign!... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaba ccdc efca aaXa aXbX gghg fhih cjbj ecXc dcbc biciXbege
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101 11111 0111010 101101 11110101 011101 1111010 01110101 10010011001 11011 110100011 11101 0110011 10100001 111101101 110101 01000001 110011 111110100 010101 10101100 001101 1100010 1010011 1110101 010101010 11100101 00100010 0110101 001101 101011110 111101 11110010 111101 010100111 111101 1110101010 11010101 1111010 110101 1110010 11111 11101 11101 110101010 110101 11011101 001011
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, her, and are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word and 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 queen is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word queen at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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