This is an analysis of the poem To Delaware that begins with:

THRICE welcome to thy sisters of the East,
To the strong tillers of a rugged home,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababababcdXdcXdeffecggc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1100110001 0011000101 0111010101 11011001101 1001100101 11010100101 1001110111 0011001101 1101010111 1111110001 1011110110 1101000101 1111101101 1111110101 1101110101 0111110101 11100100111 1111000111 1101000101 10001011101 11110001010 11010001010 101101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1053
  • Average number of words per stanza: 182
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; to, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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  • summary of To Delaware;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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