This is an analysis of the poem America: From The National Ode, July 4, 1876 that begins with:

FORESEEN in the vision of sages,
Foretold when martyrs bled,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbaabccddddeeebebeebbeeeeecbbcffXeee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110010010 011101 1110010010 10100101 10100101 1100101 110101 110101101 0011101 01001000 100101011 0101110 1010010101 0101001010 00101101001 1111101 1011110 011101 1111010 11110101 1110101 1010101001 110010001 00100100111 0100110101 0100101101 01011101 01110101 0100110101 111101 0101010101 110101 1111000101 100101 0111110111 11000101010 0111110111 1110100010 1101010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1371
  • Average number of words per stanza: 249
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words free, her, as are repeated.

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