This is an analysis of the poem Show The Flag that begins with:
Show the flag and let it wave
As a symbol of the brave...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbb Xcddee cXbbff ccffeeXeeffee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 1010001 1010101 1011111 1010101 1000101 1011101 1010101 1010111 1111101 1010111 0011101 1011111 1110100 1010001 1110101 1110101 1010001 1011101 10100101 1111101 1111111 1010111 1010101 1010101 1110101 1010101 1010111 1010101 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; it, that, may are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, may are repeated.
The author used the same word show at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase true connects the lines.
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- summary of Show The Flag;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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