This is an analysis of the poem The Death Of The Queen that begins with:
Alas! our noble and generous Queen Victoria is dead,
And I hope her soul to Heaven has fled,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeee ffaa gghX iiee jjdd aajj hhdd jjaa ddkk ggll eeeeXhhee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0111011001010001 1110101011 011010101 1101111 111010110010111101 1001000110011 11010101011101 110100101111001 1100101101 1011010 111010010011 10010101010101 1100111010101101 1100101011101 01111000111101 111010001000101 1100100101011 10001010101 01110101101 11101011011011110 01001101010101 1111000001001 1001010110111 1110101110011 0100101001101 1000100101100 1110100101101 110001010100001 11101011111101 110100111101 1101001111111 0101110010111 10101111010 100101010101010 0101100101 101111111001 11101000110101 101001010101 011101010110101 1111111110101 101001010111001001 1010010101110101 10110010110001 110010101101 11111001001011001 00100010101011 11100010010001 1011101110101 0110101010001001 1110011001 1101100101 10111100101 11010111 1100111111111 10011010100001 010111001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, to, he, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, where are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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