This is an analysis of the poem The Crisis that begins with:
ACROSS the Stony Mountains, o'er the desert's drouth and sand,
The circles of our empire touch the western ocean's strand;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffffggffffffhheeaaeeeehheeaaffffiijjffeeffcceeffffjjkkaabbffbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 72,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010101010010111 010011001010101 01001000010111 10101010010101 10010001010101 0100100110111 11010101110101 110111010110101 1110101010101 110100101010111 11011101010101 110010101111001 11010101110111 01110101010101 11110101010101 110100101011101 11001010110111 110010110101101 1100110110111 0111010010101 01010101010101 111001110110101 1111010110100101 11001011010101 11011000111101 01010101110101 111101100111111 11001111010101 111101001101010 11010100111111 01011011110101 1101110010101 110111010111001 1101010110101 101110111010101 0111010110101 01010001010101 11010101010101 11010101010101 11110101011111 01010100011101 101110101110101 00110001011101 010111000100101 0101111011111 111101010010101 01010101011101 11100100011101 110001101000111 01010100110100 11011101110111 01010101110101 10110111010001 11101110011001 01010111010101 01010101010101 01110100110111 01110101110011 101010100110101 11010101010101 11110101110011 11010101010101 10101011110111 111100101010001 1101101111101 111011101110101 11010101110101 0110010010101 01010101110101 11010011010001 01011101111101 11010101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 4324
- Average number of words per stanza: 782
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, her, and, great, saxon, in, we, or, by, which, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, where, this, by, to are repeated.
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- summary of The Crisis;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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