This is an analysis of the poem Pro Rege Nostro that begins with:
WHAT have I done for you,
England, my England?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBaCdddbc cBcCcccBc eBeCfffBX bBbCeeebc gBgCbbbbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 10110 1011111 1011 01100101 1010101 100100111 1011110110 10111101 110101 10110 1010111 1011 1110101 1010101 1110101 0011110110 10011101 100101 10110 1111111 1011 1001111 0110111 1011111 0011110110 00111101 111111 10110 1010111 1011 1111101 0110100 1111111 0011110110 10111101 100111 10110 0011101 1011 1010001 10100101 1010001 0010110110 101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 276
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; england, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word blown at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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