This is an analysis of the poem For The Country that begins with:
THE DREAM
This has nothing to do with war ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcXdefgchicjchdichbeji b gkdglkddadlbjjXhemdhhe n fffidnbkjddncjf g figkdaifffjcdmcdkddjdedk f ffnfdolfcXfjcamgig a gndXdcidbecocgdhjjj k jdfhlidXXmididjkkghdbek X kjkfkXndakdjdXcedfne
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,22,1,22,1,15,1,24,1,18,1,19,1,23,1,20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01 01100101 1010011 111110 10101101 011100011 01100101 011010010 0101000001 1101111 110101 11000111 1001010 0010111 10101001 10100101 1001011 001101001 1111111 1010111 1110111 10011010 01110010 01 010010100 0110100010 1010100 001010111 1111001 11001100 10011010 1011111 110011 100100110 1111101 11110101 100110110 110111010 11001101 101011100 1101101110 0101010 10011001 1111101 1110111 110001101 0101 01110101 0101101 1110010 10010101 111110 0101001 111101 10001100 0100010 01010100 010110 01110101 010011 1001010 10100100 011 11011111 01010101 10101011 1110010 1110110 111110101 10111000011 1111111 0101110 11010100 10100110 010111 1011101 011000010 1111101 01010111 00101010 0110101 0010101 111110 1111011 1101010 0101110 1110010 010 01011010 00111001 10101001 0101111 01010101 10001010 101111 0111101 10100101 1001111 1111010 011010 0110111 0101010 11111100 0011110 1011010 0010101 01 111101 0011100 11100101 11110110 1101010 0100101 1010101 00101110 111111 1110101 1100111 010011 1011111 111111 0110110 010100111 1101110 10110110 011110 1010 1101010 10010101 1101101 01011000 11011001 1101010 111111 01001110 0111001 01011110 01000101 1011101 11001111 10001011 10001100 01001100 1110100 10101100 1111000 1100101 1110101 010111 010110 1 01101010 11100 10101110 11001001 111010 1001100 111011 1011111 1101001 01110 1111011 11110 01000101 0101010 01001111 00101 01001011 10110111 1101111 1101001
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 322
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 171
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, she, no, one, they, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, he, of, in are repeated.
The author used the same word the 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 garden, her are repeated).
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