This is an analysis of the poem To The Reformers Of England that begins with:

GOD bless ye, brothers! in the fight
Ye 're waging now, ye cannot fail,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdebebcdcdfgfgXhdhdddddadaececeieihfhfcdcdchchcjcjkaka
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 60,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110001 111011101 11001101 111101 11011101 11001101 01101101 110101 11110101 01001111 01100111 0101011 10110101 01011101 01110101 011101 01101101 11001111 110100101 1100111 01110100 10110111 01010101 110100 01111101 1100111001 01010101 110111 01011111 111100111 11111101 011101 11010101 01010011 11011101 110101 01010101 110111010 01000101 0011010 11101001 101111001 01010101 111111 11010101 110010101 00111111 110111 11010101 01011101 010010100 110011 10010101 100110101 11010101 100101 11111111 01110011 11110101 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2030
  • Average number of words per stanza: 367
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; ye, and, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word than is repeated.

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