This is an analysis of the poem Gunpowder Treason that begins with:
Beneath the burning eastern sky
The Cross was raised at morn:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cXcd efef ebeb fefe gdgd hehe cccc didi jcjc fXfc ebeb gggg bcbc dkdk flfl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 011111 01010111 010111 110010101 110101 10110101 110101 11110101 0111001 11110111 110101 11110111 010101 10111101 011101 11110101 1100111 110101001 0100101 11100101 011101 01110101 0100111 10010111 110111 11110101 110101 11011101 110111 00010111 111101 01010101 001101 010011101 010101 011101001 010111 11010101 0100101 11010110 0101010 110101001 0110101 00110101 110101 100111001 111111 11010101 101001 100110101 001101 11110101 1000101 10110111 011111 11110111 010101 11110101 0100101 11001101 111101 11011101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.
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