This is an analysis of the poem A Song. For The Centennial Celebration Of Harvard College that begins with:
When the Puritans came over
Our hills and swamps to clear,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabaXa acacdcec cebefefe bgbgbbhX Xcfcgcfc bdXdbbbb bibidihi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100110 111101 01010100 1100111 01011101 111111 101010101 010101 01110101 010101 01110101 100111 01010101 10100111 01011101 1100101 11110101 111111 01010101 010101 110101001 010101 11010111 010101 11110101 010101 11001011 111101 11011101 1100001 01010101 110001 11110101 110110 11000101 100101 110101001 111101 11010101 010101 11110101 110101 11001100 010101 10110101 110111 11110101 010111 11010100 111101 11011101 110111 11111111 111101 11010001 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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