This is an analysis of the poem To My Country that begins with:

With love of my own race I cling unto my country,
Whatever dubious reason may protesting cry;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacXd beebXdedbdXdddff ccXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,16,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0101111110110 1101001010101 01010101110 0101010101 1001010101 0111010111 1111011101 01010111010 00110101010 0111011101 1101111101010 101100110100 111001011100 010111101011 0101010111 010101011101 110101010110 111011010101 100110011010 11010111110 0101110101 0101010101 10111101010 1101010101 10010011010 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 407
  • Average number of words per stanza: 68
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; in is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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