This is an analysis of the poem My Service To This Country that begins with:
If there is any experience I've had in my life,
I am most proudest to have accomplished....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCC CXdeb aXdeb fXf dXgffeege ABCCXag
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,3,9,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010010011011 1111001010 101100010 001010 001010 10100110 1100 1111110 111101 0111001101 01000110 1111111 1010001 01101101 10100100 100101010 10010110101 10101000101010 11101 01000010011010101 111101010100100 1101011100 11110001 110101101011 1110100110110 10101 01010010011011 1111001010 101100010 001010 110111 01001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines military is repeated).
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- summary of My Service To This Country;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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