This is an analysis of the poem Our Country 1859 that begins with:
A land there is, lying near far-northern snow,
Where only the fissures life's springtime may know....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd XXdd eecX ffgg hhee ffXXXddcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01101011101 11001011111 1100110111 11001101011 11101011101 11101001001 1111110111 1101101101 11001101010 01011010101 1101110101 1110110111 111111011001 11001101011 1101110101 110111101110 11001101011 11111011101 01111000101 1101110101 01001011001 01011001101 11110000101 0100110101 1100110011101 10100011010001 1101100111100 1100101101 11101011111 11001001001 11100100101 1101100111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; and, she, her, with, for, then are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word then is repeated.
The author used the same word then 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 hurrah is repeated).
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