This is an analysis of the poem A Song Of The Open that begins with:

Mother Earth, who bred us stalwart,
Bred us lusty, bred us free,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabcdA Xebefe cfgfgfXbabadA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111110 1110111 11101011 1111100 00101010 1010101 11101010 0011111 10101011 0011011 00101110 1010101 11101010 0010001 01111110 1111101 11101011 0011101 10101011 0101111 10101111 0111110 10001010 1010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; us, bred are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word she is repeated.

    The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of A Song Of The Open;
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