This is an analysis of the poem The Pharaohs Of Today that begins with:

Pain and labor of oppression gave the Western world its birth,
From such shores the love of freedom ne'er should perish from the earth;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabX ccdd eeff ggbX ggdd ggff hhii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 111000101010101 011010101110001 001010101110101 101000101010101 101010100010001 111010101011111 100000101110101 111111111011101 101010101010001 101110100010111 101000101010111 001000101010111 111010111011101 001010101010001 101010101010001 1010100101110100 101010101010111 101010101010101 101010100111101 101000101010101 101000101010101 101110101011101 101110100010011 101000101010101 101110101010101 1100010100010101 101000101010001 111100101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, his, to are repeated.

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