This is an analysis of the poem This Is 'My' America that begins with:
Oh beautiful it is to awaken each day,
To have choices to make......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb cXXX caXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110000001011 011001 101001001001 0010011101111 110000011011 01001011010111 1101110111 1110110111100 0 0101001011111 10011 1101111001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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, then are repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of This Is 'My' America;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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