This is an analysis of the poem America The Beautiful that begins with:
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbCDED fgfgChXh eieiCbXb jajaCDED
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001101 110101 11010100 010101 01000100 110111 11100101 010101 11001101 110101 01011101 010100 01000100 1111001 01110101 110001 11001101 010101 11111101 110111 01000100 111101 11010100 1100101 110011001 110100 11010101 1001101 01000100 110111 11100101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of America The Beautiful;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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