This is an analysis of the poem Corsica that begins with:
--- A manly race
Of unsubmitting spirit, wise and brave;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcde e fggh ijgchiklmdnXe dhmaghegcfjco daffgpganfaliefadcggedgqahrdgdXepgclogighgesifgpcgdheegmgXiihXXXgsrcafghfgiqecdldagcfeaftfetds hgucgelrgacgpamckcgpchecdhauggagodltdidclddcceelgghdefhgdgs gfgdeguefgaaglbpXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,1,4,13,13,94,59,18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101 0100010111 1111010101 01010010101 1101 10 110010010001 0101010101 1101010011 0101000101 1111001101 100001001010 1101010111 0011001101 1101010101 1101000101 1101010011 0011010101 10011101001 1101011101 1111011111 01010001010 11010101111 1001011101 01001010101 1101010101 11001011101 0101010101 001100001001 00110001001 0101010101 11010111001 01010101001 10010100010 0101010101 11010111110 11001011101 1101011111 0101010101 1001010101 1011011001 1101110101 0101011101 10110111001 1101010101 11100101001 11001110001 1011010101 0101010101 0011001101 1111100101 1101010101 1111011001 1101010101 01001111101 10011010101 1101110101 11011011001 1101011111 01010101001 1101010101 11101010101 0101001011 1101011101 01010010101 0100110101 010010100101 1111010101 1011010101 1101011101 01011001101 0101011001 11011100010 1101010101 01001010001 11001010101 10010011101 0101100101 1101110101 0111001100 0101010111 0111110101 1001011111 0101010101 01100101001 0100100101 11011011111 0101010101 0011000101 1011110101 10010101001 01010001001 0101010101 10110101100 0101011001001 11010101010 10110001001 1101110100 10110101100 11001001100 11010010011 1111011100 11110010101 01010010101 0101010101 01010010101 1101010101 0010010101 10010101001 110110100101 0101010101 1001010001 110010011101 1001011111 0101010111 0101010101 0101010101 0110001101 1101111001 110010101001 01001010111 1101010101 1101010101 11011100101 1001010101 0111011011 0100111101 1011000101 1111000101 01010101010 1101000101 0101000101 00101001001 0101010101 0111110100 1011110101 1111010101 100111001 0101110101 11110010101 1101110111 1101010111 0101111101 110010100100 1100010011 0101011101 11111101010 11011110101 1011010101 11110100101 1110010101 11010101001 10001010001 1010010101 1101001101 1101010101 1101010111 0101010101 11010101001 1101010101 1101011111 11011101110 11110111110 11000010101 1111011101 11000110111 0101110111 01010101001 01001011101 0101010101 1101010001 1100010101 1011010101 1101011111 0111010111 1101110101 0100010101 1101010101 1101010101 0101110101 111101001001 01010001001 1101011101 110010111 1101011101 0101010011 1100011101 0101010101 11010111010 1101110101 1101010101 11001101001 110110001101 01001011101 010010001001 1101010111 11110101010 110100100101 11010010101 1101010001 10010100001 01010100101 1101010101 11110010111 0101100101 10010101000 100110001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1127
- Average number of words per stanza: 191
- Amount of lines: 207
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, her, thy, with, nor, to, he, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, from, of, nor are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word country at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases hail, thine connect the lines.
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- summary of Corsica;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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