This is an analysis of the poem To The Men Of England that begins with:
Men of England, wherefore plough
For the lords who lay ye low?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff ggbb hhii jjbb iikk ggbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101001 1011111 10010111 0111101 10011111 0010001 1010111 1111111 10010101 10010111 1110111 0101011 1110101 1011101 11001111 0111011 01110101 01110101 01110101 01110101 11111101 11111001 11110101 11010101 10110111 01110101 11011111 01110111 01111111 1111111 11110111 100110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ye, another, let, and, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word wherefore at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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