This is an analysis of Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene II [The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne] by William Shakespeare.
Enobarbus describes Queen Cleopatra
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X abcdecebfXfeghic j XghigXkdjbjae b ecdjXddj Xcd kdcbX j difjgkX
- Stanza lengths: 1,16,1,13,1,8,3,5,1,7,
- Metre: 10000111010 10001011 0111010101 11010011101 100111011 0101000001010 1001011111 01011101010 110001110110 01001010101 00010101011 10000110111 01010101110 11010111010 0101011101 01010011101 111010 010111100 10000101010100 11011100111 1111100101 01011101010 10010011011 11001010001 01010001101 0001010101 01010101100 100111010101 10011111100 1101110101 1101010 0101010 100001010100100 0100010101 0101010101 111001100100 110101001011 1010011101001 1101010101 1101110 010101 1111010101 110111 10001101 1101010101 11010111110 110101010 110111 1001100110100 100010101 1101001101 0100010010101 01011111110 1111011101 01010010101 1011010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 57
Repeated words/phrases
of, her
