This is an analysis of the poem Edgehill Fight that begins with:

Naked and grey the Cotswolds stand
Beneath the summer sun, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababab cbcbXb dbdbdb efefef ghghgh fiXifi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 10110101 010101 101011101 1101101 101100101 11111001 111101110 111001 011111110 111111 0010010111 0010100 1101111111 1011101 101010111 011001 1011100101 1110101 101111111 0010101 1010110101 1010111 01111111 111101 110110111 010101 101000111 110011 11011111 011101 110110101 011111 11110100 110111 011100111 100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word at is repeated.

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