This is an analysis of the poem England that begins with:
Shall we but turn from braggart pride
Our race to cheapen and defame?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccc adadccc efefggg hahahhh diXiaaa cacaggg cacaccc dhdhiii jhjhhhhXcbcbaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 11010101 01010101 11010101 101010101 011101111 11010111 01010001 01010101 11011101 01010101 10111111 11010101 001100011 11010101 11010111 011100101 11010100 11110101 01010101 11110101 01010101 01111101 01111101 010010001 11011111 11110101 11110111 11110101 011101101 01110100 11001101 11111101 01010101 01000101 11110111 11010101 10110111 100101001 11110111 01010101 11001101 110100111 11011111 10111100 01010001 11111111 01010001 11010101 11111101 11111101 10110101 11110111 11110101 01110111 11111111 01111101 11010111 11111111 11111110 01011001 11010101 10111011 11110001 11010101 11111111 11000101 11000101 11010101 01110101 10110101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 71
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, we, and, us, thy, our are repeated.
The author used the same word by at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of England;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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