This is an analysis of the poem The Panama Canal that begins with:
ABOVE it flies the flag we love,
Within it is the blood we gave;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaXbbC dedefbfC fgfghbhc fdfdebec didiibic
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111 01000111 01011100 01011101 01111100 101011101 01111010 01000110 01011011 11010011 01010111 11110101 01010111 11010001 11111001 01000110 00010101 01110101 01110001 01010101 01000101 10010101 11010100 11010110 110011101 11011101 01010011 11011101 110001001 01010111 11011111 11000110 01110011 01110101 11111101 01010101 11110111 110010111 01010101 11000110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 268
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; it, that, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, no, beneath are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word a at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Panama Canal;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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