This is an analysis of the poem America To England that begins with:

1899
Who would trust England, let him lift his eyes ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abbaabbcdadXda X caacXaacefeefe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,1,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 1111011101 01010100101 0101010101 0101010001 1111111101 1101011111 11011101001 0111010101 1101111001 111101101001 0111110101 0111011111 1111001111 11010100101 1 0111111101 00110001001 1111111101 1101010101 110011101100 1111010011 0101010101 11011001001 1101010101 0101010111 01110001011 0101111101 1001011101 0101000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 315
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, and, more are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words more, the are repeated.

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