This is an analysis of the poem The Last Three From Trafalgar At The Anniversary Banquet, St October - that begins with:

IN grappled ships around The Victory,
Three boys did England's Duty with stout cheer, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbccbbacbbccX
  • 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: 0101010100 1101010011 11111101001 1101100101101 10011100111 1101010101 1111110111 1100111100 11010100101 1101010101 11010011001 11111100011 001011101001 11010010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 646
  • Average number of words per stanza: 112
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.

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