This is an analysis of the poem The British that begins with:
Take some Picts, Celts and Silures
And let them settle,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xab bcX bbb bbXd bcbbd e ff a eXX dXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,4,5,1,2,1,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111100 11010 11010010100 01010100100010 11010101 101010110111000 11110010100100 1000110011010001 00011101 11010010111100100 11010 1001100 11101 1011100010100 1101101001001 11101010101 110100 1100101 100100010 11111011100010 100010010 011001 1110010101011010 1010 101 110010011000101010100101010010100101 10101010100100101111101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; some, to are repeated.
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- summary of The British;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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