This is an analysis of the poem England Before The Storm that begins with:

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The day that is the night of days,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aabbcdcd X aaeeXbbb X eeffghgh X eeeeXdbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 01100101 010101101 11010101 11010101 11010111 01010101 110001011 100101 1 01010101 110100101 11010101 01000101 11111000 10110101 01111110 110101 1 101000101 01000111 10111111 01010101 11111101 11111101 110010101 111101 1 11000101 01010111 01011101 10110101 11010100 01010101 11010101 0101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • 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.

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