This is an analysis of the poem The Free Selector that begins with:
Ye sons of industry, to you I belong,
And to you I would dedicate a verse or a song,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabc ccdX bcee ddXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010001101 1011110101101 010100100110011 101111100111 11011101111 1010010101101 101001011101 001011111100 11011111111 101101101101 110001011001 111001001011 10111011111 11001110001 1010101111110 11111101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 267
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; has, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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