This is an analysis of the poem A Federal Song that begins with:
IN the greyness of the dawning we have seen the pilot-star,
In the whisper of the morning we have heard the years afar.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbCccbddbbbeeeb ffbbbCccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001000101110101 001000101110001 1111100 1110111 111010101110001 10101011 10101011 0010001011101010 1011100 111010101011111 101010110010001 0010101 1010101 0010000101110101 11101010 01101010 1010001010101010 1010100 101000101011101 001000101110111 1111100 1110111 111010101110001 10101011 10101011 0010001010101010 1010100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 602
- Average number of words per stanza: 119
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, us are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, he are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us, together are repeated).
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- summary of A Federal Song;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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