This is an analysis of the poem Song Of America that begins with:
And now, when poets are singing
Their songs of olden days, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbbbdefeghchdijifkdklijiacbcbmbmnjdjnldlmchcXemefhlhfkbkambmooXobedebpbpjahabbbbbmcmmgbeXcccbklkhmbmbmfmcdddgmbmdhohmemehcccbkokocfchebememe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 144,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110110 110101 11101010 0101001 11110010 0011011 001111010 1100101 01001010 0010101 1011110 100111 1001110 110101 101011010 10101111 11101010 1010101 1101110 1110101 11001010 1110111 001010010 1010101 11001010 0010011 001011110 011111 11110110 0011111 11101110 1011111 01001010 110101 101001010 110101 11001110 1100111 101001110 1100101 1111110 111101 11101010 011101 11001110 0111001 1101010 0010111 1011100 1100110 10110010 1011001 11101010 1100101 001010010 011101 11001010 1101111 01001110 1111011 11110110 111101 11011010 110101 11110010 1111001 1101010 110111 111110110 0101101 111101111 10101101 1111010 1110111 01011010 11101101 1011110 101111 11111010 1011111 11011110 110111 00101010 111101 0111010 010101 11001010 0100101 11011010 010100 111010110 110001 11001010 0100101 00101010 011101 11111010 111111 1100110010 111101 1111010 110111 1110010 0101011 11011010 0110101 11011010 01111101 1111110 101101 1111110 110111 1101010 1111101 11110010 1111001 11111001 0100101 11111010 100101 11001010 1101101 11101010 0100101 0010010010 110101 110110110 1101001 111110 100101 01011010 0101001 1010011 1100101 1001010 110101 11110010 1100101 01001010 11101101 11001110 0011101 11010010 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 4647
- Average number of words per stanza: 843
- Amount of lines: 144
- 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; and, of, no, they, to, your, you, our, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and, of, o, i, each, you, they, we, the are repeated.
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- summary of Song Of America;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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