This is an analysis of the poem Liberty Ball that begins with:

Come all ye true friends of the nation,
Attend to humanity’s call;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abABBABcdcdeXfXfefgfgeaXabe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110010 01010001 110111010 11101001 11101001 110111010 11101001 010011010 11001101 011010110 11111001 111110011 1101100010 11101001 110011111 01101001 011011 110110010 11010011 111110010 101111001 1011010011 111110110 11011111 111110010 11101001 111010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 956
  • Average number of words per stanza: 180
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; liberty, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, come, with, we are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ball is repeated).

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