This is an analysis of the poem The Land That Shall Be (Dedicated To Herman Anker And M. Anker On The that begins with:
Ocaasion of their silver-wedding, September 15, 1888)
Land that shall be...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X AbbccbXA AddedffddA AggggfXA AhhaaeeA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,10,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10001101001011 1110 1011011011 1001111111 1001011011 1011 1001001001 1110 01110 1110 1011001101 100101 1 111 10010101001 0001 0111011001 1001 01110 1110 1111101011 1101001101 1000101001 1101 1011100111 1100 01110 1110 1001001011 1001111111 0101011001 1111 10010011010 010110 01110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, that, in are repeated.
The author used the same word land 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 be, within are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word be at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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