This is an analysis of the poem The Rebel that begins with:
Call me traitor to my country and a rebel to my God.
And the foe of “law and order”, well deserving of the rod,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabb ccddaa eebbbb ffggaa bbhhaaggXbbggbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001101010011 101011101010001 111010100010001 111110101010001 101110100010111 101110100010101 101000100110101 101111101110011 101100101010011 101011101011101 111110101010101 001010100010011 001010101010101 001010101010011 111000100010101 111110101010101 111010100010101 101010100010001 111010101010001 111010101010101 101110101011111 101011101010101 111010100010101 101010101010101 111110100010001 101011111010101 1010101011111001 111011100010011 101010110010101 111010101011101 1110101011100110 11100101001101010 111010101010001 101011111010101 111010100010101 1010101100010101 111010101010111 101010100011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 386
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, i, in, have are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words from, are are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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