This is an analysis of the poem To My Native Land that begins with:
Thou spot of earth, where from the breast of woe
My eye first rose, and in the purple glow ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb cdcd Xece fdfd ghXgh cfcf cgcg bgbg didijj ccbbb ffffff XXcc ifif hhfXgf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,6,5,6,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101100101 1111100101 0101010101 10110001001 11001011101 1101010101 0101010111 011000101 111000101010 00111110101 1111010101 0011111101 11110010001 0101010001 1101100101 1101000101 1101110101 10111001001 1111110011 1110011101 0001011101 1111110101 1111000101 1111011111 11001000101 0101011101 11001011001 1101110111 1011001101 0111000111 0111110001 11010010101 00110000101 11010100101 10101010101 1101011101 0111010101 1111011101 1111011111 110001101001 01011111001 11110100101 1001110101 0101010101 1111001001 1001110101 1101110101 1101010111 1101011101 0111101101 1111001101 1101010101 1111010101 0111010101 1110110101 01001010101 1101110101 0111011111 01010011001 0101011101 11110100101 1111011100 11001111101 1100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; of, so, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of To My Native Land;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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