Poem Analysis of Union And Liberty by Oliver Wendell Holmes for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Union And Liberty that begins with:

FLAG of the heroes who left us their glory,
Borne through their battle-fields' thunder and flame,... full text

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Rhyme scheme: abab CCDEED fdfd CCDEED efef CCDEED ghgh CCDEED ififXCCDEED
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,4,6,4,6,4,6,11,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 10010111110 1111011011 100011010010 11011101011 101101 100101 1011001001 110101 110101 1011001101 10110010110 1001011001 10110111010 1011111001 101101 100101 1011001001 110101 110101 1011001101 100100111011 1001001001 11010110111 1001101101 101101 100101 1011001001 110101 110101 1011001101 10110110010 10110101111 10010110010 1011001011 101101 100101 1011001001 110101 110101 1011001101 10010111111 1011111111 11010111011 1111101001 101101 100101 1011001001 110101 110101 1011001101
Amount of stanzas: 10
Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
Average number of words per stanza: 32
Amount of lines: 50
Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their, of, with, us are repeated.

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Union And Liberty by Oliver Wendell Holmes: poem analysis

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