This is an analysis of the poem Elegiac Feelings American that begins with:

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How inseparable you and the America you saw yet was never ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabcdbebdcdfghggXijbbkajjdccljlmjlbXbjmbhjigkhecjkcbfgbdfenbko kpncnjgkghopXXbdnbjmkgqkjhrnkhrlbbsdhjjmdkabXcdnckdqdnndam XXjdildXhdbm jcjmbcmekedgkbgnkkanebflbkmbmkkke bfnXdlpdbsbeggnglnhcjjknjkblddjlhbln XkXqjamcXjbbcjc bdklcdbdbdhkbXpnlfenXrddnkkfckbj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 62,58,12,33,36,15,38,12,15,6,7,18,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1010001100100111110 10111010010110 11101111011 001010111010 10110100 010 111110110010 01001001001111 11 11101010111 110101001010 11010010111 1000001010010 101011101101 1111001011 101100110000 01011001110 0111001111 01001001100 0100010011000010 11010011 100101010110 011010100100 100001000010110110 01001111010 10110001011100 0111010110 101111 1100010011111011 010101101 11010100111 101111010101 11011 10100010100 01000010101110 100001110000 100111100101 1010001010101 10101011101000 10101011010 101 11111100100101010010 01011010010011 010011111111 10100010101001010 1101001010000100 010101000100111 10011100100111 11001001100111 10101010010010111 101101010010100 11001001100001111 0010011001011010 010101001110 0101001100100101 101001010101 0110011100 0101010101100 11011011011010 101010111011 111100101110010101 0111110100101 1000100111100 1110111111110 011011 110110101011001 011010110011 0110111 101110111011 11111110100111 1110010111111 10111010100011 10100101101101 001011111110 10100 110001001011100100 11100101111 010100110100100 11100101110 101011110010 0101010101011 1011101111 110000010101101 11001111111 100100100101 10101010010 11001010100010 101111010110101 0110010011100 0101011010110 11010010000010 0100101 11011101001010 1001001100010 10010010001010 10101110010001 111111010011 101011101000 010 11100100101001111 0101101100101 10110001000010 10101111111 1010100101101101001000 01000100110100 10001011111 1110101001011 1001001010011100010 1000010010001 0100111 1101010111111 1010011001011 11101011111 11011101111 111010111 100011110010101 110101011101 110101110010 101101010110110011 1 1111101111101 101011111100 10100101001111 10111110 10111001010010100111 10001100110101 10001111001010 1000111100100 1101110011001 11110100100010000 1011 10101011100101 010010100101010000 10101000101101101 0100011001 111110100101010100 11110101111011 0111101010101 11111000110 100100110101 101101110100 11011001110011 1001010011110 111001111011 110101101010 11101011000110 10110100111 10001011001111110 1001011001011 1100100101110 10111001100100 111101100100100 11101000101100 101001100100 0111100010001 100100110010010 1000101000101011 0011001101 1001101010011111010 101010101011 01001011010010 1001110010 11001100100001 0100011100100 01010100010110 01010 11001101001011 1011100110010010 0101 01001010011011010001 010111011 010001 1111110010110 101 010101010100 01000100 101001011100010001 11011010111 110 1110110100111011 101111000100 100100111001 110101001010 1011111 11010001010110 101010 11001111101001 11111001001110100 01001001000100 011110010 101000111001010 11111101101 111001011111 110110101011 0101110 101011010101011 11010110101010 111111110 010001111110 1 1 10111111101101001 11011010011000 100001011 11101110111110 10110010101 11110111101 1001 100100001000111010000 110010011001000 110001100010 010010100101000 0100110000001001 10010100111 0100100 0100101101010 101100111 10001001111 10001000101 111101011100111 11000100110 10101000010100 1001001 11110111010110 01000100101 0111101101000111 10110110101010 111111100110 1010111 11111111101001 01110110101001 01 1101110010011 111111011010 10101111100 11110011010 01001 0011000100111001 010110100111 1011101101 1010011000001001 100101000100100 1001011011010000 00101 1011101011111111 1111110110100 101010100110 1010001111101 11110011010 101101111010 1111101011 1110011111 1010010001 11001110011 10101110011 1100110001 10110100010101 010110110101 11 111111110110100 111111011111 011011011111 11101011111 111 1011100001 110101001001101101 110 1010110110101 101110010111 100001000110100 01111000100001 10001011001011 110101001101110 1111 111110111 10011011110101 011011011010010 11010101110010 1011101011010 111 1110011101001 0101000101110 10010010100101 11101001011 1111010100100 111101010100 11110110101001110 111110110110 100100100110010 10100100111 01101010101 1111100 11101 1 011011 11100101 111001110 11110011 10111011 1111100011 1101111 01001011101 11101001010 0111 1010011001 110101011101 0111100101001 010011111 11011 110100 010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1210
  • Average number of words per stanza: 216
  • Amount of lines: 313
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, and, america, no, of, by, he, tree, for, that, ground, in, spirit, fall, hands, to, liberty, happened, it, saw, brought, die, your, why, earth are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, america, happened, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines be, the, and, will are repeated).

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