This is an analysis of the poem The Word Of The English that begins with:

Hearken, hearken, hearken!
Give ear, O ye nations, from afar...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabacBdX efgfXgXX XcXcebXX XeXebBdddX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101010 111110001 00100100010 11100011001 100110101010 00100010001 10100110010 111011101110 111100101010 1111010101 11111110010 011110101 11111101110 11101100001 11101101100 1111010101 1110111010111 1110011101 11110111010 11110010101 111010111010 1101010101 11110101011 111011101110 101010 111110001 11110101010 11101011101 001000100010 00100010001 10100100010 10100101010 10100100010 111011101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 383
  • Average number of words per stanza: 73
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; hearken, of, their, have, we, english, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, their, from are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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