This is an analysis of the poem California that begins with:
Land of gold!- thy sisters greet thee,
O'er the mountain and the main;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cabd XeXe dcXc bfbf XfXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111011 10010101 11101011 1001111 100111110 1011101 11101010 10010100 11101010 1010101 10101110 1010101 10011010 1010111 00101010 1011101 10111010 1110101 11101010 1110101 10101000 11111001 10100010 1010001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; they is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.
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- summary of California;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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