This is an analysis of the poem Our Yankee Girls that begins with:

LET greener lands and bluer skies,
If such the wide earth shows,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaababa cbcbdada XeXebaba afafXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101 010111 01011101 110111 01110101 111001 10110101 111101 01101101 110111 01010101 111111 11011111 110101 11110111 111101 11011101 0101001 11010101 010101 11110101 0100111 01000101 110101 110011101 111101 01111101 010101 01010101 110110 111111010 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; and is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word girls at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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