This is an analysis of the poem 1805 that begins with:

At Viscount Nelson’s lavish funeral,
While the mob milled and yelled about St Paul’s,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aba cXc cac ada eXe faf gbg aXa hdh bXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010100 1011110111 01001001100 1011010101 11010100010 11100000001 11010111001 0111010100 1101110101 1111011101 0101010101 1101010011 1111011111 11010111010 111100110 1101111111 11110100101 0111010001 11110101110 1110110101 1111100111010 11010011101 1011111010 1101010001 1001011101 11010111011 1111000101 1101000100 101000001011 1101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • 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.

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  • summary of 1805;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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