This is an analysis of the poem England Cxvii that begins with:

England, queen of the waves, whose green inviolate girdle enrings thee
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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcbbdbddd XXefgf achcceiXiXi ggbgig chXheheghgXg Xaaafa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,6,11,6,12,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10100111010010101 1 10110101010101101 101101110101001 11 11110111010101 111 10100101011011011 1 111111111101001 01 1110111001111101 11 11111101101010010 1 11110101101010010 1 11101111111111 101 1110010111011110 1 11100101011101011 10011111101010010 1 1011011111010110 1 11110111110100 101 11110110011011110 1 1111011111110111 1 111111010011001 01 101001011011010110 1 1111100111001110 1 11101111001111110 1 11101001111110110 1 1010010100101101 01 111011110011100 101 1011011111110110 1 11111111010111 101 11110111111110 101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 356
  • Average number of words per stanza: 66
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, thee, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word truth is repeated.

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

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