This is an analysis of the poem The Land that begins with:

When Julius Fabricius, Sub-Prefect of the Weald,
In the days of Diocletian owned our Lower River-field,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabX aacX ddee eecc aaaX ffgX hhXi ggcX iijX jjXX jjbb aajj jjkk eecc aacc jjff cXaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110100111001 00101001110101 1101100010001 10100111011100010 101101010010101 11011101110101 10111100011101 1011101010111110 111011100010101 111010101110101 101010101010111 111011100110001 1101001110101 110101000100111 101010100010101 111010111110001 11100101111100101 111010101110101 111010100010101 10100111011101110 111101010111101 111111111111101 1011101011101111 01101010111010100 100101010101101 11110100011101 111010111010111 101010101111101 1001011101010111 11010100010101 111010101010001 111010111010010 101110101110101 11110100010111 111000101111101 1010111010111111 111101010110001 111111100010101 111110101111101 10111010101111100 110010101010111 11010101010101 11010101010101 111110101010101 1001010101110101 11010101010111 101011011010011 110101101110111 1110111011100010 1111101011111010 101110101011101 1011100101010101 1110101110010101 01010100011101 101010101011101 11010101110101 01100111010101 110101001100111 101010100110001 11010100110111 111011101110111 111011101010101 101010111010101 101000101110101 1010111010110101 01001100110010 10011101010111101 101010101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 69
  • Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, and, i, but, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i are repeated.

    The author used the same words ogier, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Land;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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