This is an analysis of the poem The Curse Of Cromwell that begins with:

YOU ask what -- I have found, and far and wide I go:
Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous crew,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccDb eeddbbDB ffbXccDBddaaggDB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 111111111111 1011011101001 01010101100001 101110101010111 1101110100001 01011100111101 11011101 101101 110010110111 1110010110101 11101110101 1111010110101 11100111111101 1111111110101 11011101 101101 110101011101 10100110010101 010111111100 10101010111100 11010101110101 1111110111101 11011101 101101 1110110010001 01010111010101 111101111101 1110111010111 111101011111 0101110110111 11011101 101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 523
  • Average number of words per stanza: 102
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, what, that, know, of are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word say at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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