This is an analysis of the poem Fragment: To The People Of England that begins with:
PEOPLE of England, ye who toil and groan,
Who reap the harvests which are not your own,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001011111 1101011111 1101110101 1111100101 11110 1111110111 1100010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 303
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 7
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, who are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, and are repeated.
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