This is an analysis of the poem The Channel Tunnel: Sonnets that begins with:
NOT for less love, all glorious France, to thee,
‘Sweet enemy’ called in days long since at end.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaXbaccbcbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11111100101 11001011111 1111010101 11001101101 1111110101 11110011100 0111110101 0111010001 1111010101 1101111101 1100110001 11010011101 10110101001 110110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 631
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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