This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet: England In 1819 that begins with:
An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king,--
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abababcdcdcXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111011101 1001011111 11011001001 1011011111 1110110101 1111010101 010111001001 1101100011 1101110111 1011011111 0101010011 01011101000 11010100101 10100111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 647
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.
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