This is an analysis of the poem A Patriot that begins with:
A patriot be - for knowledge, freedom,
The soul's too small a price to pay!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaCXDeXfbfCXDefXXXCXDe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100011010 01110101 11101110 01011101 11101010 1111101 010101110 1010111 011001010 10111010 10111010 10101110 11101010 1111101 010101110 1010101 11111010 10100110 10001111 01110111 11101010 1111101 010101110 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 774
- Average number of words per stanza: 148
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of A Patriot;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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