This is an analysis of the poem God Bless America that begins with:
Here they go again,
The Yanks in their armoured parade ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbb baXXa cbccXbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101 010110001 1011001 111001011 1001001 01011001 0111010 01001001 01111011 01001001 0101111 1111001 11001001 11001001 11111111 11001001 11011001 001001001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; your is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, your are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of God Bless America;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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