This is an analysis of the poem They Desire A Better Country that begins with:
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I would not if I could undo my past,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bccbbccbdeXXaX X fddffddfabfbaf X dbbddbbdegegeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,1,14,1,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1 1110110111 1101110001 1111111101 1101110111 1111010111 1101011111 1101010011 11110101001 1110111111 0101010101 1101010101 1001001101 1100011101 10111111010 1 1101100011 0111011101 0111010111 1011010101 1111110011 0101010101 0101111101 1011011111 1100111101 1001110111 1111111111 0101100101 1011001101 1101111111 1 0100010101 1111000101 0101010001 1001110111 1011010101 1001010101 0101001101 11001110111 1111010101 1101110101 1011010101 1101010100 1101010111 10110101110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 294
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, my, in, golden, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, or, in are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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