This is an analysis of the poem Freedom's Battle-Song that begins with:
RED, white, blue, the flag that leads us on,
Stripes as red as blood well shed by many a hero gone.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbCCDCCCCDAaeeCCDCCCCDAafefCCDCCCCD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 37,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011111 11111111100101 11101010010011 1011101010101 10101110 1010111 10101 1110101 0010 1010 1010 10110101 111011111 1111101110111 11001100110101 1110100010001 10101110 1010111 10101 1110101 0010 1010 1010 10110101 111011111 11111011111001 1011100001111 1111101101 11 10101110 1010111 10101 1110101 0010 1010 1010 10110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1265
- Average number of words per stanza: 237
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; flag, people are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word fly is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines people is repeated).
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