This is an analysis of the poem National Song (E.C.) that begins with:

There is no land like England
Where banks rise day by day,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xaba cada bcece ddcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011110 111111 11111101 010101 10111010 1110001 010101000 010101 10 10111010 1111010 10101010 111010 10111111010 111101001010 0011010010 11101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; banks is repeated.

    The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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