This is an analysis of the poem Our Native Earth that begins with:
We do not carry it in lockets on the breast,
And do not cry about it in poems,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaaababcacadd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 111100010101 1111010010 0111100101 11110111010 011110101 0100110101 1101010110 1101010101 1011011110 101101111 1110010110 001111001 111000101001 11110111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 571
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; not, it, to, and, this are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word yes is repeated.
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