This is an analysis of the poem Oh! ...Those First Amendment Rights that begins with:
The advocates of free speech!
And, oh! ...those first amendment rights they seek....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabcbbdcd eeX Xabeb Xebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,3,5,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100011 1111010111 00100101010 111101110100010 001010011110 1100101001 1010000 01111011100 1101010100 0010101001110100 1001100100 10111011001 11101110010 1101000111111 001101100111010 11100101001010100 0011001010001001 11001011101000100 110101110110 0100010100010 001000010101011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and are repeated.
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