This is an analysis of the poem England's Answer that begins with:
Truly ye come of The Blood; slower to bless than to ban;
Little used to lie down at the bidding of any man.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbbbccdXddeeddffddggffhhddaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110011001101 10101110100101 10011111001111 111110111100 1011111011110 1111110111111010 110101110111 1111101111111 1111101110101 11110101101100 100101100101 1101110111101 1111010100101 110001101101001 10101101110101 1111100111111101 001010101011101 11110101010111 110111110111 1011111011001011 0101011110101 0101011110101 011111011111110 01111001111101 11110110111101 10010010011111 1011101101011 1001111110101 1011101100111 111010111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1783
- Average number of words per stanza: 358
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, my, not, that, for, and, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word this is repeated.
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- summary of England's Answer;
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