This is an analysis of the poem What Have I Done For You 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: aBaCdddcbc cBcCXcccbc eBecfffcXc bBbCeeecbc gBgCbbbcbc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111 10110 1011111 1011 01100101 1010101 100100111 10111101 10 10111101 110101 10110 1010111 1011 1110110 1010101 1110101 00111101 10 10011101 100101 10110 1111111 1011 1001111 1010111 1011111 10111101 10 10111101 111111 10110 1010111 1011 1111101 0110100 1111111 00111101 10 10111101 100111 10110 0011101 1011 1010001 10100101 1010001 00111101 10 101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 275
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; england, of are 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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