This is an analysis of the poem The Old Language that begins with:
England, what have you done to make the speech
My fathers used a stranger to my lips,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXbXXXab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011110101 1101010011 110001010101 11111010101 1011011111 1101111011 01100101011 100111100010 100101111101 01101011001 001100111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 525
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
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; to is repeated.
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- summary of The Old Language;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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