This is an analysis of Adieux À Marie Stuart by Algernon Charles Swinburne.
I.
QUEEN, for whose house my fathers fought,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bcbc dede fgfG bcbc X hihi hjhj hihi kdkD X fifi lglG mnmn didi X lclc dgdg ococ pcpc a clcl qgqg hbhb kdkD a bibi mgmg ifif riri X bcbc gdgd fifiXkckc
- Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1 11111101 011111 110101001 11 11111111 1101011 101111101 11 01110111 111111 10110100 11 11110111 111111 10111111 11 1 111111010 1000111 1111001010 0101001 1101001110 111101 111011010 010100 110111110 1011 111111110 0101 110101110 1111 1101010010 01 1 110111001 111111 110111110 01 101100111 111101 11101101 11 11010111 1111 11011101 11 11010001 1101 11010111 01 1 11110111 110101 11110101 11 11110111 1101110 11110011 110 110110011 0111010 11011101 110 11110111 1011111 11010101 11 1 11111011010 110111 010111110 111111 111111111 111111 011111011 011101 110101010 11001 110101010 1100 111101010 1101 110111110 01 1 01011111 110101 11111101 01 11110101 101111 11010111 11 11011111 1101 0100100101 01 11111111 01001 010010101 01 1 11111101 111111 01100101 11 110111010 011101 110111010 01 11010101 011111 11111100 01 111111110 1101011 110110110 11
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 35
- Lines: 120
Repeated words/phrases
and, or, nor
Anaphora
you, the, a, farewell
Anadiplosis
farewell
