This is an analysis of To England by Alfred Austin.

Men deemed thee fallen, did they? fallen like Rome,
Coiled into self to foil a Vandal throng:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdcd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 11110011011 1001010101 1101011101 1011101101 1001001101 1011101101 1001100111 010010010001 0111110111 0101011101 0101110011 1111010101 10001100101 1001011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

thy

Anaphora

the