This is an analysis of the poem To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War that begins with:
A cloud has lowered that shall not soon pass o'er.
The world takes sides: whether for impious aims ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbbccbadeade
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 011101111110 01111010101 01001101100 01001000101 1001010011 110111001 1101111100 01001011101 1011011111 1110011101 0101011101 1010101100 1001010101 1111000101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 632
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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