This is an analysis of the poem Monument At Lucerne that begins with:
When madden'd France shook her King's palace floor,
Nobly, heroic Swiss, ye met your doom.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccccdede ffXfghgh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11001101101 1001011111 0101000111 1111010101 1111110111 01110100101 1011110101 1111110101 10011010101 1100100101 1101000101 10010010011 1101001100 10010100011 1011010100 1101011101 1111110101 1101110101 10010110101 010111001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 435
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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