This is an analysis of the poem 'Poor Old Britain' that begins with:
Nobody's wrong but England—and England's always wrong,
Too late—or else too early—too soft—or else too strong....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccaaddeeffffaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111110110111 1111110111111 1111011010101 0111110010101 0101110010101 1101010111101 1101010011111 11110100010101 11111100010101 11111101110101 1101110010001 1001010111101 1101011110001 0100110110101 11110010110101 1101010100101 1101010110101 1001110110111 01011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 499
- Average number of words per stanza: 93
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; too, to, and, her are repeated.
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