This is an analysis of the poem The Holy Constitution that begins with:
Read ye here the song as sung
By a chief named, briefly, Ung.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccbbbdXX dddeedXfdfX ggeXeehhXfX iidjjdhhdhd kkXbbXeXdad ddlddXiXdid eeemmejXdjdXllbddbeeded
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,11,11,11,11,23,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111 1011101 001110001010 1110011 0010111 101011111110 0010001 1010101 101011001010 101000100111100 01001101000 101001 1010101 01010101010 1010101 1010101 101001101010 1110111 1010101 101010111010 101011101010001 111010101000 10101010 00101010 10010101010 1010011 0110101 10100000101010 1110111 0010001 101010111000 10101011111101 111010001000 1110001 1010001 11010110010 1011101 1010111 101001101010 1011101 0110101 11010101010 10101001110101 11010001010 1010111 1011101 101111111110 1110111 10111101 101101101010 1111101 10101100 110010101010 11111011010101 01000101010 1110111 1011101 101011101010 1111101 10011101 01010110000 1011101 1110001 101010101010 1111101010100001 111010001010 1010101 1100111 101010101010 11000101 1011101 110010100010 1010101 11101100 101010101010 110010101110001 1100011010 101011 1010101 10101101110 1001101 1010101 101010101010 1110101 0110111 111111101010 11010111111111 101011101010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 417
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, his, same, it, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, but are repeated.
The poet repeated the same words ', constitution at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Holy Constitution;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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