This is an analysis of the poem An Ode, Written October, 1819, Before The Spaniards Had Recovered Their Liberty that begins with:
Arise, arise, arise!
There is blood on the earth that denies ye bread;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccc dadaeee fcfcggg hdhdddd ididhch
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 010101 10110110111 01111 011010101 110100101 111111001 1110110101 010010010 0110101111 001110 00111100101 110010111 1110100111 1100101001 111010 1100100101 101110 0101110111 11101001001 111100101 1000111011 101010 0111101011 101010 1101111111 1001101101 101111011101 11101001011 111001 01001001011 10111 0111101101 1110110100 1110100100 1010111100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; arise, dead, awaken, your, glory, have are repeated.
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