This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Peers that begins with:
When Britain really ruled the waves -
(In good Queen Bess's time)... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXbaa XcXXcaa adeedaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 00111 01011110 010100100 110101 11010101 00111001 11001101 1100111 01010101 01001100 100101 11010101 001101001 11010111 010101 11010111 01010101 111101 11011101 101101001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.
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