This is an analysis of the poem The Death Of General Wolfe that begins with:
In a mouldering cave where the wretched retreat,
Britannia sat wasted with care; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd dedebcfc cXcgXfXf XfbXgdbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 001001101001 010011001 11101101011 11011001 01001111001 001001001 11001101101 101001111 010001001011 10010001 11001111001 11001011 10010101101 111101001 11101001001 111011101 11001011001 110110100 100011010011 101001001 01011001001 10111001 11101001001 101110001 101001001011 11101001 11110111001 11101110 001011101001 11101011 101011001101 101101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 336
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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