This is an analysis of the poem England! The Time Is Come When Thou Should’st Wean that begins with:

ENGLAND! the time is come when thou should'st wean
Thy heart from its emasculating food;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaacXacdXddc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1001011111 1100100001 0111010101 1110010111 1111010110 1111001101 01110100100 1001011101 1011000101 1111000111 1111001100 1101111101 0110000101 1111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 622
  • Average number of words per stanza: 108
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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