This is an analysis of the poem London, 1802 that begins with:

Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour;
England hath need of thee: she is a fen... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaXbbacdddcd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 10110101010 1011011001 0101010111 1010010101110 1100110101 01010011101 1111010101 11110101010 1111011101 1101111101 11010100101 1111011101 0101001111 0101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 600
  • Average number of words per stanza: 108
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, us are repeated.

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