This is an analysis of the poem As Far As Your Rifles Cover that begins with:
Do you think, you slaves of a thousand years to poverty, wealth and pride,
You can crush the spirit that has been free in a land that's new and... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXaabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111001000100111 11101011010011111 11100100101101101010 101011110101111010 11111011011010111 111110010110110101 10100110101001001110 1110111101111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 328
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 81 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 16
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; land, you, and, till, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word till is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word cover at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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