This is an analysis of the poem The Pirates In England that begins with:

When Rome was rotten-ripe to her fall,
And the sceptre passed from her hand,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef bgbg dhdh afaf fifi jbjb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 111101001 10101001 0100111001 0100101 01011001011 1101011 11100111 10101100 110101101 1101011 111110101 101111 11111111 0101111 1111110101 1101001 111110111 111111 0101011101 100101 110100111 110111 100001101 1111001 01011111 0011101 100110111 110100 111100101 010101 11101001101 1010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, they are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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