This is an analysis of the poem Filipinos, Remember Us that begins with:
You, if it fall to you to take
From us the lamp that Athens gave, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBab cdcd ecec cfcf cXcX ghgh hgXg igig hXhc jkjk ggXg aBabXbcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10010101 01011101 10010111 11110001 01110101 11001101 11110111 01110101 11110101 01110101 01010101 11010101 11110111 01011001 11001011 01010001 11111101 01010110 11010101 11010111 10110101 101010101 100011101 1010011 10010111 11000101 11000101 01011101 110010101 11111101 01001101 11010001 01001101 11010010 01011011 10010111 111100101 11010101 11010111 010010001 11010101 0110101001 1101001100 01101101 10010101 01011101 10010111 01011101 110010101 110010101 11010101 01110111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; to, and are repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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