This is an analysis of the poem No Better Land Than This that begins with:

If I knew a better country in this glorious world today
Where a man's work hours are shorter and he's drawing bigger pay,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddbbee ffggbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0110101000100101 1011101101110101 0010101011100111 11110011110101 1110111001010111 101010101111101 1010010101011101 101010101010101 0010101001101001 101001101010111 101110101011101 1110010101011110 101011100010001 111010001010100 101011101010111 0010010101110101 1110001011101001 101010100010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 364
  • Average number of words per stanza: 70
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, for are repeated.

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  • summary of No Better Land Than This;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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