This is an analysis of the poem Dear Motherland Of France that begins with:
DEDICATED TO THE MEN AND WOMEN OF FRANCE
Our Motherland, dear Motherland,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbcddeeA fafaggeeA hihiaaeeA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100000111001 11011101 01010101 11110101 01110111 11111101 11000100 11000111 11111111 110101 11011111 11010111 111100101 11110101 11111101 11001111 11111111 11111111 110101 11010111 11010101 010001001 11110101 11011101 01010101 11011010 11111111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; of, thy, and, thee are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, dear are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word france at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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