This is an analysis of the poem The Centennial Year that begins with:
A Hundred years — and she had sat, a queen
Sheltering her children, opening wide her gates... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccdefgehgegegicaegcXeXaXaajaebcedaebbgaefeegXkeieXcbchigebghbXeXgkgileccXfkjefhegjegeXeeegmccefclkacelcbbjggeieXcfieacmcebXiehabhaekcbkeh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 139,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0100111101 100010100101 01010010111 11010101001 01010100101 0101010101 1101011100 1101010111 1011000100 1101110101 0101010001 1011001101 1001010111 01010010001 1111011111 1111000111 01001010101 0101010101 1101011111 1101011101 1101011111 01110101101 1110000101 1001010110 1101000100 0111011001 111001101 1101110001 1101 110011 1001011101 1111010111 0100011101 0101010001 01110111011 11010111001 1111010101 1101011101 00101011101 1101010101 010111 1100 11110100100 1111010101 1101011101 1110011101 010111011000 1111110101 10001010101 1111011111 1001010101 0110010110 1101111101 1111000101 1101011101 1101001111 01100100101 11101110101 01010010011 1101110101 0111010001 0101011101 0101110101 01010111010 1001011011 0100010110 0101111101 1011010100 1101000111 0101110101 1100110001 1110100101 0101011111 0110010111 01010001001 0111010100 1101011100 1101011101 1101011101 01000010100 01010101001 0101100100 10110111011 1101010101 1001110101 1100010111 0101010101 01011101000 0101010101 0101111101 0111001101 1101010111 1011110001 0111010101 1101010111 010010101001 0101010100 0100010101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 0111010101 11010101011 1101011111 11001011101 11001111101 1101010111 10011110101 01010010101 1101010101 1111010101 1011010111 1111111100 1011010101 1111010110 01110 11110 1111110001 1101110101 11010011101 1101010101 1101011101 01110010101 0101010111 1111110101 1101010111 1101010100 1111110101 0101000110 1101010101 11010010011 1101011101 1001011101 1001110101 01000101111 1111010101 1111110001 10101010001 11111001001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 5945
- Average number of words per stanza: 1027
- Amount of lines: 139
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, and, of, to, with, from, their, by are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, from, their, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Centennial Year;
- central theme;
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- critical appreciation.
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