This is an analysis of the poem Crimean War that begins with:

At the announcement that Britain was to declare War, Kossuth
the Hungarian Patriot and orator, declared in an address in ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXa bbaabcddeeeeXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 100101101001110 0010010011000101110 10101010101111011 101010101001 1101010100101 111111111111 11010110101 11110101001 0101010101 11110101 11111101 11010111110101 10010101110101 1111110011001 11010001010101 1011011000 1100101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 433
  • Average number of words per stanza: 81
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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