This is an analysis of the poem Our Country that begins with:
WE give thy natal day to hope,
O Country of our love and prayer!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefghghhdhdididdjdjbXbhhdhXbgbgihiheeeebfbkhlhlbibiidXdlblbdedeihihdldldfdkeceXcdcdkmfmnfnf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 100,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11101101 11001111 11011101 11010111 111101011 11110101 01010111 11110111 01011101 11111111 11011101 01011101 100010111 101101010 01010111 1011001010 10110101 11011101 01111101 011001101 11110100 01010101 11010101 11011100 10110101 11110111 11111101 01110111 00110111 100101100 10010101 01100101 11111101 11010101 010101001 1100111110 01010111 110011101 10011101 01110111 10111101 11011101 11110111 11010101 111000101 10010001 11010010 010010001 010111101 11010101 11000101 01010100 10110101 01011101 01011111 11011001 01011101 11010101 11110101 01110101 110010101 11010100 110100100 01010111 11101101 11010101 10010101 01011100 11111001 01000101 11010101 01010101 111001001 01011101 11010101 11010100 11110010 111101001 01010101 01010111 11110101 11110101 11011101 01000100 11110111 01001111 11010111 011001110 10110001 11110101 11000101 01011101 01110100 11010101 11110101 10110101 11010111 11111101 11111101 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3494
- Average number of words per stanza: 648
- Amount of lines: 100
- 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; as, thy, of, his, and, to, our, thee are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, we, and, no are repeated.
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- summary of Our Country;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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