This is an analysis of the poem Longfellow that begins with:
In a great land, a new land, a land full of labour
and riches and confusion,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdef fghXiX ejcege aXejie XXfdcf kgcXif cjcblX ijcglh djghhc ckXXlX bkffdb ibcXcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0011011011011 1101010 11010100111 10110010 001001010101 11010110 10111011110 100011010 00011101010 1011000100 1110101101001 10100 111010101100 101011 11101011101 00110 101000101001 01001010 11110110101 110110010 111001110101 11011011 11101010001 1000110010 111001001101 1010010010 11110100110 0110010010 110010010111 01010010 101010011101 11010010 100101101010 010010010 11100101111 111110 111010011101 1010010011 011011010011 01110010111 01010010110 101010010 010101111101 10100011 01110010011 0100010 1010101101000 1000010 1010101011100 110100011 101010101001 1101110 110101101000 1110010 1011101110001 11110 001110010001 100101010 100010100110 10100110 101011101000 11010010 1010011010 10101010 1010011110 001010 101010101011 110010 11111010011 110 11101011111 010110
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, land, of, his, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word or at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines singing is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word singing at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Longfellow;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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