This is an analysis of the poem The Land Where I Was Born that begins with:
HAVE you ever been down to my countree
Where the trees are green and tall? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XababcXC XdedeceC XfXfXcXC XefeacgC Xfgfbccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111001011 1011111 0111101011 1010111 1011100111 0101001 101011111 0011111 111001011 10111001 010100101 1011100 100100101 0011111 110111001 0011111 111001011 11100101 1110111101 1111011 10100101 1011111 011110101 0011111 111001011 0110101 1110110111 1110111 110111101 100101 1011100111 0011111 11110011 1110111 1111111111 100111 010101111 11101011 111101101 0011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1687
- Average number of words per stanza: 292
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, they, their, i, you, have are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word have is repeated.
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- summary of The Land Where I Was Born;
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- idea of the verse;
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