This is an analysis of the poem What Shall I Do For The Land That Bred Me that begins with:
What shall I do for the land that bred me,
Her homes and fields that folded and fed me?— ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXX bbXXX bbaXX ccXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101111 0111110111 010010111010 10010111010 101001011010 101001010 11011011110 1001011110 01001011110 1110010111010 111010110 0101010010 1111111111 110010111010 110010111010 1001111011 110111110 0101001010 010010111010 110010111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; her, for, and, fame, to, me are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, honour are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word honour at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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