This is an analysis of the poem Come Quietly, Britain! that begins with:

Come quietly, Britain, all together, come!
It is time!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdef fffffcghX XfXXcichijklblihih glhhhXbXbXX ded kebebafafafaXaja aakbbffgmgfmdXjg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,18,11,3,16,16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001010101 001 11101110 1110 10111010 11101110 1101110 101010101 10101010 0110 10101010 101001010 10101010 10101010 01000010 11101110 10101110 10110100 111101 10101010 11111010 11101110 11111010 1110111 11101110 1011010011 101001101 1010111 10101010 110101 0111010 110101 11001111 001101 101111 1110101 10010010101 10111010 110111 10111010 1011101 10101110 0010001 10101010 0010011 10110011 1111010 110101 11110101 010011 111101 111101 010010 0011101 11101010 010101 11101110 111101 0100110 111101 0111010 111101 100010 1010101 111010101 010111 001110101 1001011001 111111 10101 111 11010 111010 11010 1110101 11111 1101110 11010101 110101010 101 1110111 101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 354
  • Average number of words per stanza: 66
  • Amount of lines: 83
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our, let, for, not, they, and, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words let, not, what, they, in are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines weeping is repeated).

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