This is an analysis of the poem A Patriotic Creed that begins with:
To serve my country day by day
At any humble post I may;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbCc ddeeaa ffgghh iiccCc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01110111 11010111 01010101 01010111 00010001 11101101 01111101 01110101 11010111 00111111 11010011 11010001 111101010 010101010 11110111 11111101 11011111 11010100 01111111 01000111 01011101 01010011 00010001 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less 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; to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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