This is an analysis of the poem Britannia Triumphans that begins with:
I
MOTHER of five mighty nations,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcXcbdedcfgfXaXagXgX X ddXdXegecahabhch
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,20,1,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 10011010 101011101 11001110 101000101 10100110 101010101 10101010 101010101 10100010 10101001001 101010100 111010101 10101100 1110101001 00101010 0010010001 00100010 001010101 001111100 111011101 1 10101010 101010100 10101010 001010101 100101110 101111101 111010010 101100101 10101010 1010111001 1011110 111010111 10101010 1101100101 10101010 001110100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 324
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, hers, onward are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hers, onward are repeated.
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