This is an analysis of the poem A Temperance Song For The Fourth Of July. that begins with:

Tune.— 'Rose of Allandale.'
A voice is heard upon the gale,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X ababcdcd ececfdfd dgdghdhX hdhdcdcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101000 01010101 110101 01010111 110101 11010111 110101 01011101 010111 011100101 010101 11010101 110011 11011101 1101001 11010101 010111 01010111 011101 01010001 010101 01010101 010101 1110100101 11111011 11010101 010101 11010111 100101 110100101 110100 11010001 10100011
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; her is repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same words free, ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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