This is an analysis of the poem Waterloo Day that begins with:
THIS is the day of our glory; this is our day to weep.
Under her dusty laurels England stirs in her sleep; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb bbcc dXee Xdddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00010110001101 1001010101001 10010101001111 10010010110111 11011010110101 110100100100111 110100101101001 1101101001101101 1010110100101 1100101010101001 1010110101100011 111001001010110101 10011110111110 1011010010101001011 1101111011101101 101101010101001001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, days, her, when, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
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