This is an analysis of the poem Immigrants In Our Own Land that begins with:

We are born with dreams in our hearts,
looking for better days ahead....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdXcebabfccbg abgcbdgbchiaacjje ccdfbbXkf clbkcjgfilf hidcajc bcclXcdXccb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,17,9,11,7,11,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101011 10110101 1011110110 111110 1111010110101 11101110110 111000101 110010110011 10110111 1010100011 001111011 1000011 11101110 110110101 110111011 0111111111 0101110010 1101110110 10110111011 11010110011 1101101010 0110100101 11011001 1101111011110 0101111110 0010101001010 11101110101 11011 0101100101 0010101001 11001010101 1001101110 111010101100 001001101 111111111 111001011111 1011101111 1011001011010 0101111001 11010011110010 1111101111 110110101 111101111110 11010001101 01010010110010 01011001001 10101100101 11100111101 101111 11101110100 010101010 1101011 110101101110 01011010110 111111100100 1001111110 1111101 10011001011 1011010111 1001101101 1001100111 10010100110 10111001110 0101010101001 101010101011 1110110101110 11101110010111 1111111101011 11110111101100 1110101110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 505
  • Average number of words per stanza: 94
  • Amount of lines: 70
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; we, my, to, they, as, their are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Immigrants In Our Own Land;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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