This is an analysis of the poem Freedom that begins with:

Out of the heart of the city begotten
Of the labour of men and their manifold hands,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccab deccde fghXfg ifccif bbjjXb dbXbdX khcckh bbbbhb bXaXXb ebhhebXjhhhjh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010010010 001101111011 111010010010 110011010010 110010011010 01001101001 1001001001 00100100111 10011010010 10010110010 1001001011 1001101001 0001011011 1111001001 1001110010 10011011100 101001101011 10111001001 100110111 100111001 101110011010 10111001010 1001101111 1001101111 1001011010 10101001011 1001101110 10101001010 101001101110 1001101001 10100010111 001111110010 10111001010 00101001010 1010110111 00101001101 10011110010 1010100101 10101100100100 101110011100 1010110110010 101101001101 10101001011 1001011001 100110011 10001001011 10110111 10100101 000111001 0011101100 10101001110 10110100100 11001001001 010101111 1001111011 1011110011 1001101011 10110010011 1001001101 1001001011 11110001110 110100111 10010010011 10010010111 1011111010110 1001101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 273
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 66
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; of, out, mother, with, and, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words out, mother, over, where, earth are repeated.

    The author used the same words out, over at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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  • summary of Freedom;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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