This is an analysis of the poem To America that begins with:
How would you have us, as we are?
Or sinking 'neath the load we bear?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 11010111 11110101 11010101 10110111 01011111 11010011 110010111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or is repeated.
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- summary of To America;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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