This is an analysis of the poem England that begins with:
While men pay reverence to mighty things,
They must revere thee, thou blue-cinctured isle... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdXcdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111000101 11011111001 0101011011 0101010011 1011011011 0111111001 1101010101 1101010101 11111100101 1100111111 11010010101 1100111101 1111101101 1101010010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 639
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
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