This is an analysis of the poem The Flag that begins with:
See the glorious stars and stripes,
Floating over there;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcbdeXe cfffXbgb dbebhghg egXgffgfXAbebfede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100111 10101 1110011 00101 11011101 10101 10101111 01001 11111101 101101 110101010 00101 010101001 011101 11101001 11101 11010111 00101 011100101 111101 01111100 11111 110100100 110101 01001001 010101 10011111 0010101 1111101 11101 1110101 010101 10100111 10101 1010101 10001 1011011 101110 110010111 01101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Flag;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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