This is an analysis of the poem Palestine that begins with:

This land gives us
all that makes life worth living:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBcddXbdec ABeadaXc ABcddX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111 1111110 1010010 00100111 01001001 01000100 1100010 1101 101010101 1010010100 0111 1111110 010101 01010100100101 110011010 10101011 01001111111100 1010101 0111 1111110 1011001010110 111101 11011101 11001111101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • 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; lady is repeated.

    The author used the same word this at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines palestine is repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Palestine;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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