This is an analysis of the poem The Colonists that begins with:
To men now of her blood and race
England's a little garden place,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX ccdd ccca eebb ffXc ccff ggbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01100111 10010101 11010011 010100100 01010111 10110101 01111111 101101001 01010101 11010111 10011111 11010101 11011101 011011011 010100110 100110001 10110101 01010111 011001000 010011101 011010100 01010100 01010101 01110101 101111110 010101010 10001101 01010111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; her is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word her is repeated.
The author used the same word to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Colonists;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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