This is an analysis of the poem Zaza, The Female Slave that begins with:
O, my country, my country!
How long I for thee,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbcbbb XacaXdXdAA XdedeaXaAA XfXfdgcgAA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110110 11111 110010 11001 101100 1001 11110 11101 1011001001 1111011101 111100 1111 11010 10111 110101 1111 100100 1101 111011011111 11001011001 10010 1111 11110 11011 1001 111011 10110 1101 111011011111 11001011001 1101 011101 11110 11001 1101 011101 11110 11001 111011011111 11001011001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words far, say are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word sea at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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