This is an analysis of the poem The Youth Of England To Garibaldi's Legend that begins with:

O ye who by the gaping earth
Where, faint with resurrection, lay... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc XXdecc efeXgg chchii jbjbee jkjkff fkfkbX blblmm cXXcjj ffffll eXefee nknkcc cmcmcc Xmmlff cicXjj Xffoff kffkbp fXffff mkkmpb cjjcff nffnjj gkgkjj nccnnn kiiifX qbpqjj rXjrjj affajj keXkjj kpkbnn miimjj Xigill jnnjii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11110101 11010101 1100100001 01110101 011101001 01110001 1101000111 011101100 01111101 11011111 0100101001 010100101 11110101 01110101 11110111 01110101 01110101 01010001 11110111 11110101 01101111 10101001 11011001 1010100111 1111111 1111101 1010001 11000101 01011111 1110101 01011111 01111111 11010101 10010101 11010101 0101010101001 110101101 01010100 11010001 11101110 10110101 0101100 11010101 101100101 01110111 01110111 11010101 11001101 1101111 10010100 001100111 010111 11011101 1010101 11010111 11010001 10111101 10111101 1010101 11111101 11111111 11010110 01010101 110110001 11111101 11110111 01010001001 011011001 11010101 01011101 110101111 11010011 11111001 110010101 01010111 01010101 10101001 11010101 11100110 01011101 110100001 01011001 1010101 10010001 10011101 01010101 1000101 11001100 1001111 001010011 11111111 11110001 11010011 11010111 10110111 1010111 11100101 01011101 01001111 11110111 11010111 01010100 010010001 111001011 10010100 110011101 1010111 11010111 01101111 01010101 11010101 1010101 1110100 1011101 10111111 11010111 10101001 01010101 11011001 01010011 1110101 11010101 011111 1110101 0011111 01010101 01101111 10110101 11010101 11011111 1011101 010011001 01111100 1110111 01010001 11010101 11010101 01010011 1010101 1010101 1010101 1010101 11010101 1010101 110100010 1110110 01010100 111111110 11101111 11111101 011100101 110101000 11001111 1110101 1110001 01011111 1111101 01110111 1010111 0110011 1011111 1011111 1111101 11110001 1010101 1110101 1001101 1110101 11111001 11111100 01010111 11011101 11011111 01010101 1111101 01011101 01111110 11110111 01010101 01010101 1111011 010100111 11011101 11011110 1011101 1011101 1010111 11101001 1010111 0000100 1001111 110010100 1010111 01000101 10011011 1010011 01011111 1100101 1110001 0010101 1011111 01010001 1010101 11010110 11111001 1110101 11010101 0100100101 0110101 01100111 0111111 110001 1110101 1010001 1111101 01010001 1111111 1011111 10101001 0111101 1011101 111000001 1010101 010000101 1011001 1010001 1001111 1010001 1110101 11011111 11110101 11110111 11110001001 011101110100 11010111 11011101 11111001 01001111 11010111 111111010101 111111 1010101 101001001 1010101 110101 0011101 0110101 10101010 110101 00101010 1011101 1100101 10111010 01110101 010111010 01010101 1110111 01010111 1101111 1011101 1111101 01001100 1110111 0011101 11010101 00111111 1110101 11010101 01010101 01011100 111110100 110110111 11000101 10110001 11010101 01010111 11010101 110010111 01011101 11011101 010010111 01010111 10011101 110100101 11010101 01100101 11011101 11010101 01110111 11110101 01010001 01111111 11010001 110101100 100111001 100000101 11011101 00110111 1110101011 10011110 11010111 10010101 01100101 11011100 11011001 10010101 01010101 100100111 11010101 01111111 11110111 110101100 111001001 010111111 01010101 1011100 11010111 10101101 01010101 10110101 10111101 01010101 11010101 11010101 10110101 0011111 01011101 111011001 01011101 01000101 10010101 1010001 11010001 1010111 1110111 11001011 11011111 001001010 11110101 110101110 10011101 01110000 11000110 01011101 11011101 11010101 110001001 01111101 110111111 11011101 11110101 01111101 11010011 11111100 11110111 01110111 11000010 11010111 01010101 01011101 10100111 1011101 01011101 01110100 11010101 11110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 61
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 426
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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, ye, know, of, to, ask, his, your, look, last, nor, she, that are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words what, the, on, and, we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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