This is an analysis of the poem Freedom that begins with:
What freeman knoweth freedom? Never he
Whose father's father through long lives have reigned ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaXbbaccdXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101010101 1101011111 10101110001 1001011111 1111110100 1111100101 11001100111 0101111110 1111011001 11001010101 1101110111 1110000100 0111000111 110110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 667
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; he is repeated.
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- summary of Freedom;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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