This is an analysis of the poem The States that begins with:
There is no star within the flag
That's brighter than its brothers, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABaBcdcd dcdcbebe bfbfabXb cgcgdddd ABaBfhfh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110101 1101010 11010011 0100010 11011111 1111001 11011101 1100101 01110111 110001 11111111 101111 01010101 110001 11010001 111111 01010100 010101 01110101 011101 11110101 010101 11000101 0101010 01111101 111111 11110111 011101 11011101 110101 01010101 011001 10110101 1101010 11010011 0100010 11011101 110101 11011111 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The States;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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