This is an analysis of the poem America that begins with:
Glorious daughter of time! Thou of the mild blue eye --
Thou of the virginal forehead --pallid, unfurrowed of tears-- ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbccdcd dcdcbebecfcf fgfghihijaja kakaiXilclcl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001001100111 1001001010100001 1001110101001 0011100100100100 110100101101001 011010011100101 10011110101011 101001101010011 1011100101011 0110111001001 101110100111 10100100100101 1111010011111 001100101011001 1101100100101011 110010100100101 100100101100101 101101101110010 1010010101110101 10100100111001010 111101101100101 0010111111011011 111010101001011 01101100010101 111100010010101 00100100110100101 10010110100101 11111011111111 11010010100111 101100101101011 110010110100101 111100110110101 1111001101001001 11101010010001 11110100111001001 1111100101101111 010011011001011 1111010101101 0101101100110101 11101001101111 1101001001011 11001010101010100 0100100111100101 1101101001001011 10000100111011 0101111100101 0101010100101 01101100111011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 765
- Average number of words per stanza: 140
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (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; of, thou, and, thy, for, to, be are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thou, and, or, be are repeated.
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- summary of America;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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