This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of The Greatest Isle that begins with:
A health to our soldiers and sailors true
That guard Britannia's throne;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefgdgd hchcidid
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0101101101 111001 010100101 00110101 00100101101 01100111 00111100101 00100101 1100110111 100111 1010100101 110101 1011110111 1010101 1011100101 10100101 1100100101 00100101 110110101 00101101 111110101 100101001 1010110101 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 304
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to, where are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, where are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word isle at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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