This is an analysis of the poem England In Egypt that begins with:

FROM the dusty jaded sunlight of the careless Cairo streets,
Through the open bedroom window where the pale blue held the... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbabbcbcdeBBCEXFcXXEbXcbXcbgXbadeBBCEXFcXXEdXbhbhijijheBBCEXFgXXEbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 68,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 001010110010101 10101110101110 1 110101010111001 11010100010101 101010100010011 111111110011101 111010111010011 1010001011010101 1111111 1111101 11101011 11101011 01011010 10101001 1101010 1101101 11101110 1010100 1101010 110111 11111010 11101000 101010101010101 101010101110001 10101111101010 1 101011101010111 1101110111111 11011111110110 111111011111001 001010110010101 1110111 1111101 11101011 11101011 01011010 10101001 1101010 1101101 11101010 1111111 1101010 110111 11110011 10111000 11110100110111 01001010010010010 101011101111111 011101011100010 101000101010111 101100101010111 101110111011100 11010101010001 1111110 1011101 11101011 11101011 01011010 10101001 1101010 1101101 10101110 0010111 111010 110111 10101110 10111000
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2820
  • Average number of words per stanza: 530
  • Amount of lines: 68
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, and, i, england, their, when, as, of, fifes, drums are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, till, ah, as, when are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines drums, ' are repeated).

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