Ode For July Fourth, 1917 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Ode For July Fourth, 1917 that begins with:

As Columbia's brave scions, in anger array'd,
Once defy'd a proud monarch and built a new nation;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXXXcc cacadddaa efefdddaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101001101001 1100111110110 1110010100011 1111011010010 1110010 111011 101011011011 1010010011011 001011011011 101001001001 11110010110010 1010010111001 110011011010 101011 111101 101111101001 101001001101 101011001001 101101000111 101111001100110 001001001011 1010010110110 101101 001001 1010110010001 101001001111 101001011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 411
  • Average number of words per stanza: 75
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • 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; our, of are repeated.

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